Middle Hitter Website News

[cyberVBmidwest]

Yes, I noticed the website was down just before I got on a 4 hour flight. It still isn't working now that I landed and checked into my hotel. Of course this would happen while I am on a business trip including a dinner meeting tonight meaning NO TIME to work on the issue! (frustration should be showing now)

I have a call into my website host but who knows what I will find out and when. That is one of the challenges of running a website on a volunteer basis. I have to choose the lowest cost options since it is out of my own pocket. Hopefully, it will be resolved quickly. This is only the second time in a year & a half.

I'll keep you posted. (I better post and pay attention. I finally got through and hit the red button instead of the green button to get it off speaker. The result, the 20 min wait for customer service ended up in my dropping them as soon as they said "hello".....)


PS: Pablo has sent me the MHPR but obviously I cannot post it yet.

[cyberVBmidwest]

Update as of 1:50 PM Pacific

For non-techies: The ISP knows of the problem and are working on it. No guarantee of when but hopefully soon.

For techies: The RAID array went down and their attempt to rebuild from the RAID array didn't work. They are now working on reloading the latest backup. Glad I am not running an e-commerce site ($$$).

At least I know I didn't hit the wrong button somewhere!

[Rocky]

Thanks for the update.

Have a safe trip!

[cyberVBmidwest]

Well, as you may have noticed the site came back up after about 24 hours. They had to replace it with their latest backup. I now know that they back up the website server once per week as the files I found were from the previous week. I will be working through some synchronization issues over the next week. If you notice something missing or out of sorts, please feel free to email me at the webmaster link.

I did get one months credit for the trouble but at $4.99 per month, I'd rather of just had the web server not go down or at least get my Monday AM files back instead of the one from the previous Monday.