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We’re Back!

Our server went kaput. We got a new one.

James Joyner
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Dave Schuler emailed me Thursday evening to notify me that OTB wasn’t loading for him. After a few minutes of fiddling on my end, I submitted a trouble ticket to our site host and they informed me we had a massive hardware failure. They moved our files to a new machine overnight but  they don’t do the backend work needed to actually get the site up and running and, alas, the guy who handles that sort of thing for me was indisposed and then ran into some fairly major technical issues.

If you’re reading this, the domain is pointing to the new server now and hopefully ready for us to start writing and you to start commenting again. Let us know if you notice anything broken.

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21 responses to “We’re Back!”

  1. ernieyeball Avatar
    ernieyeball

    Civil order in Ferguson MO.

  2. Liberal Capitalist Avatar
    Liberal Capitalist

    Huzzah! Glad it was not a denial of service attack.

    I had a passing thought that the continued common sense approach and factual based discussions could have upset those who have a problem with that.

    🙂

  3. jd Avatar
    jd

    Thank heavens. I was about to ask for my money back.

  4. jd Avatar
    jd

    No, something’s wrong. Your URL is http://nblo.gs/ZfpmS

  5. Ron Beasley Avatar
    Ron Beasley

    Good, I”m glad to see you are “really” back tonight.

  6. beth Avatar
    beth

    You know, if you wanted a weekend off you could have just asked.

    Welcome back.

  7. MarkedMan Avatar
    MarkedMan

    Just curious. Does it save significantly doing your site this way rather than hosting it with a service that handles all this hardware stuff? Not necessarily a blog hosting service but rather a software/app one that will host you on a virtual machine and fail over to a new one in a second or two if there is ever a problem.

  8. Ol Nat Avatar
    Ol Nat

    So glad you’re back! I missed you all!

  9. Scott O Avatar
    Scott O

    Every guy suffers a hardware failure sooner or later. Part of the aging process. Or so I’ve heard.

  10. Janis Gore Avatar
    Janis Gore

    http://youtu.be/m3Y1O9eVKRs

  11. James Joyner Avatar
    James Joyner

    @MarkedMan: I was paying much more for a full service, all bells and whistles service from Rackspace for three years or so and it was actually much worse. We were failing all the time. We recovered more quickly from a hardware failure there but lost a couple days worth of posts (which I was able to manually recover from the RSS cache).

    It was mostly just an odd bit of bad luck timing-wise, with my server guy out of town and without connectivity beyond his phone and the odd coffee shop.

  12. EddieInCA Avatar
    EddieInCA

    Dear Dr. Joyner, Mr. Mataconis, Esq, and Dr. Taylor, et. al:

    Glad you’re all back. You are all a part of my daily routine, even on the weekends, so when you’re gone, it feels like something is off in the earth’s tilt.

    So….

    Thank you.

  13. OzarkHillbilly Avatar
    OzarkHillbilly

    Good.

  14. gVOR08 Avatar
    gVOR08

    Oh good. I was traveling and having IT problems. I thought it was on my end.

  15. ernieyeball Avatar
    ernieyeball

    @Scott O:..Every guy???

    Speak for yerself dead pecker.

  16. al-Ameda Avatar
    al-Ameda

    Ha! I wouldn’t blame you if you purposely took your server down. Welcome back.

  17. Janis Gore Avatar
    Janis Gore

    Ah! Dr Michael Baden, the forensic pathologist, is a good guy.

  18. James in Silverdale, WA Avatar
    James in Silverdale, WA

    Well, these things happen. Glad to see you back up!

  19. rudderpedals Avatar
    rudderpedals

    There’s a market for broken swerver components and assemblies….

  20. CB Avatar
    CB

    Thank god. Now I have something to do at work again.

  21. Tyrell Avatar
    Tyrell

    I am glad the site is back. I am also relieved that I did not somehow break it.

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