I gather it’s been a while since I posted to the blog since I just looked at the date and found the last entry was July 9th. Since it’s now October 31st…Halloween…I guess it’s perfectly natural that I should rise from the dead to haunt my blog.

Except that I never died, you know. Continue reading →

Yesterday my association’s website went down. Well, mostly down. The static parts were still up, but all the dynamic database driven parts were dead on the web. I spent the day checking over the configuration files, resetting server parameters, and scheduled a database restore by the server host. I even can celled my trip to Readercon and planned to spend the weekend deploying the site I’ve been developing rather than go crazy trying to fix a site we planned to replace in a month or so.

This morning, it’s working fine. The host didn’t get to the database replacement, and though I did run some diagnostics and cleared some caches late last night, neither had any noticeable effect.

Don’t you hate it when things fix themselves?

Doesn’t it give you a warm feeling knowing that it could happen again at any time?

Sigh.