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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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9 September 2004 - 2:41 pm
UPDATE: There have been reports of visitors who are unable to see some of the subdomains on this site -- for example, Mt. Athos or Rubidium -- but are able to see this page and some of the other subdomains. If you've had this problem, please leave a comment and let me know.
Some of you probably noticed the extended outage last week of all the -273 sites. This was because our provider's provider stopped paying its bills to the datacenter where this server was located. Consequently, the datacenter pulled the plug on the server we were running on and about 300 other servers and held our data hostage for a few days while it tried to extract money from the party who hadn't paid its bills. Eventually, -273's provider, webdiggity.com, was able to extract all of our data and move to a new provider. Off-site back-ups have also been arranged to prevent this situation from reoccurring. Previously, backups were on the secondary hard drive of our server and both this drives were backed up by the datacenter. However, they weren't releasing any backups until the bills were paid. Third-party backups are now SOP for webdiggity. The site should be fully functioning at this point, but I haven't verified everything. Please leave a comment here if something appears to be broken.
Posted by on 9 September 2004 at 2:40 PM
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Thanks for getting everything back to normal, David.
Posted by rkc on 15 September 2004 - 3:05 PM