Hot Dang, the Website’s Back Up! (and New Record Set!)
My apologies to anyone who tried in vain to reach this blog or website in the last 36 hours. A fire at what is reportedly the largest web server facility in the world, in Houston, put thousands of servers and tens of thousands of websites — including this one — out of commission for a day and a half. Here’s the notice my web host put up:
Server Issues:
We would like to make our customers aware that we are currently have some issues with our NS1.NETPIVOTAL.COM Primary nameserver and the Rose.netpivotal.com server. On Saturday evening at 4:55 in the Houston data centre where the two servers are located, an electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding our electrical equipment room. Thankfully, no one was injured. In addition, no servers were damaged or lost and the data is still safely on the server. There is no impact in any of our other servers.
So if you were inconvenienced, I’m very sorry. But I’m glad you’ve returned.
It was a really bad time for this to happen because I know from the statistics that this is the busiest time of year for this website. You may recall just two months ago that I was crowing that the website had had 3,000 unique visitors in one month for the first time ever. Well, just two months later we hit 4,000 unique visitors.
Now, this is really exciting for me but let me put it in perspective for you. This website went live in November of 2005. The first month it had 1,000 unique visitors was July of 2006. It was then June 2007 when it first had 2,000 unique visitors in one month. The 3,000 mark was hit then in March 2008 and now, May 2008, it already hit 4,000! And the very next morning the servers went out and everything was offline for 36 hours!
So welcome back, and now maybe we can get back to discussing important things, like motorcycles.
Biker Quote for Today
If you can’t get it going with bungee cords and electrician’s tape, it’s serious.
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