Well, my site was down for a couple days at least this weekend, and I'm still working on it. I have found temporary housing for http://www.brianwiese.net, and soon for http://brianwiese.net as well, with the help of Mat Caughron, a kind friend always willing to help out, even on a Sunday. =) The reason "why" my site went down was simple network connectivity issues, outside of my control.
The network where my server is hosted was adding a new uplink connection to the internet with Level 3, and in the process of this "upgrade", all existing IP addresses where changed and many sites hosted there went down accordingly. There's not much that can be done about it, as there is no service agreement for quality of service and lack of interruption, so I just have to pickup the pieces and move on. The problem is, this has happened so many times in the past couple of years to make it much more than a nuisance.
My friend Ken Ross has his site down as well due to the same issues, and since there was no telling "when" everything might be working again, I've settled on some temporary fixes for now.
I have an account on the UNO ACM webserver, and I'm actually the admin for it, so I just updated my DNS entry for www.brianwiese.net to point to that server, and configured Apache to virtual host that domain on my user webspace. So that works out nice. =) I'm also in need of some quality bandwidth and service, and so I'm setting up brianwiese.net to be co-hosted on a server with Mat Caughron's help. Thanks Mat!
Posted by bwiese at February 29, 2004 02:19 PM