After what I suspect is just over a week, this site is back online and [should] be operating normally. But, since you’re here and reading this, you’ve probably figured that part out. For the less frequent visitors, I’ll explain it briefly.
Last Thursday Auntie Kristin was able to see through the anonymity of the “admin” vail used on this site and contacted me letting me know the site was down. I appreciate the notification since nobody like having down time, even on a small scale operation like this one. Unfortunately that created the issues of figuring out what the heck happened. After some boring testing and diagnostics that I won’t bore you with, it was determined that the DNS service that this site uses went down some time Wednesday. (The DNS people are the ones who take a site address like ours, http://www.yahoo.com or http://www.google.com and make it to a numeric IP address that the computer uses.) That all boils down to having a working site on a working server that’s now very hard for people to get to.
Since our DNS service is a free dynamic system, occasional outages are to be expected. After a few days of downtime and seeing it brought up on social media many times, there was no communication from the company acknowledging the problem, saying that they were working on it, or an expected timeframe of restoration, we started looking at another provider. After selecting one, we spent pretty much a couple of days reconfiguring system scripts, the web server and its virtual hosts, the WordPress system and the several hundred database entries associated with this site to work with the new site address. After all of that, and some minor testing, the old DNS provider got its act together and starting working again.
That brings us to the next problem… Everything is now reconfigured for the new setup and the old one starts working again. I sat down with Babycakes, Mommy and Daddy and the four of us went over our options. Because the new system would require the new URL to be sent out, we decided to keep the old name and address and return all the settings to their previous values. That meant changing back all of the system scripts, server and virtual host settings, WordPress and those several hundred database entires to what they all were before all of this started all for your convince. You’re welcome.
Now it’s eight days later and here we are. Everything should have been resorted and operation normally, or at least how it was before. If you don’t mind, I would appreciate you taking a few minutes to click around the site and see if the links work. Check out some old posts, some pictures, videos, different pages or log into your account if you have one. Feel free to create one if you’d like. Leave a few comments or replies. If you’ve chosen to do some of that, please come back here to this post and leave a comment letting me know if you found everything to be working okay or if you found a problem somewhere. Thanks guys!
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