Frognet....
So, yeah... I've been a bit busy this last week and a half.
Last Thursday (30 June 2011) my local ISP and web host went down - hard. See, they were actually "upgrading" their web hosting server when there was a multitude of critical failures. As far as I am concerned, the very first critical failure was their failure to communicate to their clients that they were going to be doing this. They started it on 28 June 2011 - no word to anyone because it was supposed to be "seamless and invisible" to the end-user. Yeah, we all know how that sort of thing goes.
So, apparently, in the early stages of the changeover (ok, apparently the third day into it) their main web server hard drive pukes and dies - catastrophically. Ok, so they go to their backup server - which also proceeds to puke and die. Fortunately, they were able to save the backup data files.
Next major problem, their MySQL backups are at least a month old. So all changes I had made to various sites during the month of June, were lost. Ok, I guess I'll have to live with that.
On the upside... my personal research site (originally my 'default' website through Frognet) now has a permanent home at www.finnseachs-souterrain.com/. I have also rebuilt and moved my Fyrebird Technologies, LLC website (and can now offer web hosting with email accounts) through it. I still have to get my Derby Team's webpage back up to date - it's one of the sites I maintain that lost all June updates. *sigh*
Oh, for the next three weeks (11 July 2011 - 29 July 2011) I will be taking an ISA Intensive course leading to certification. ISA = Information Systems Analyst (aka - Business Analyst & Project Manager). Wish me luck! I intend to be "top dog" in the class of 21 people. *smile*
Last Thursday (30 June 2011) my local ISP and web host went down - hard. See, they were actually "upgrading" their web hosting server when there was a multitude of critical failures. As far as I am concerned, the very first critical failure was their failure to communicate to their clients that they were going to be doing this. They started it on 28 June 2011 - no word to anyone because it was supposed to be "seamless and invisible" to the end-user. Yeah, we all know how that sort of thing goes.
So, apparently, in the early stages of the changeover (ok, apparently the third day into it) their main web server hard drive pukes and dies - catastrophically. Ok, so they go to their backup server - which also proceeds to puke and die. Fortunately, they were able to save the backup data files.
Next major problem, their MySQL backups are at least a month old. So all changes I had made to various sites during the month of June, were lost. Ok, I guess I'll have to live with that.
On the upside... my personal research site (originally my 'default' website through Frognet) now has a permanent home at www.finnseachs-souterrain.com/. I have also rebuilt and moved my Fyrebird Technologies, LLC website (and can now offer web hosting with email accounts) through it. I still have to get my Derby Team's webpage back up to date - it's one of the sites I maintain that lost all June updates. *sigh*
Oh, for the next three weeks (11 July 2011 - 29 July 2011) I will be taking an ISA Intensive course leading to certification. ISA = Information Systems Analyst (aka - Business Analyst & Project Manager). Wish me luck! I intend to be "top dog" in the class of 21 people. *smile*