From appearances — I haven’t called — why bother? — GoDaddy swapped servers on us last night at around midnight. I know this conjecturally because we lost around five hours of posts and comments. Only one post, which I replaced this morning, but six comments that I know of, possibly more.
If you posted a comment last night between 7:18 pm and midnight, MST, it’s gone with my regrets. Jason Benesch, Jillayne Schlicke, Jeff Brown and Loren Nason I know for sure were affected, because those four came to my email for one reason or another. I’m not sure what else was lost.
Again, please accept my apologies for these hiccoughs. Cross your fingers, they’ll be over for good very soon.
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Jay Thompson says:
Interesting. Late Monday/Early Tuesday, I called up my blog, also hosted on GoDaddy, only to be met with a bunch of gibberish with a cryptic (to me) SQL error scrawled across the page:
Can’t execute the query because you have a conflicting read lock on line XXX
Which was repeated several times with several different line numbers.
I figured I’d done something stupid, but a quick Google of the error showed it was a server issue. I called GoDaddy, and was placed on hold (at 1:00am?) forever.
The “tech support” person insisted it was not a server problem, and provided no help (unusual in my experience with GD support). I researched some more, and every single thing pointed to a server issue. Finally I went to bed, figuring it would be better to call tech support in the morning.
Woke up about 7:00am. The blog was fine (so much for it being my fault, unless I fixed it in my sleep).
I don’t get nearly the traffic you do, but I’ve never had an hour with zero visits. That night I had a four hour block of no traffic — none, zip nada.
Good luck with the server switchover!
March 22, 2007 — 7:49 pm
Loren Nason says:
I don’t remember what i commented on 🙂
You will enjoy having your own VPS (thats what your getting aren’t you?)
If you haven’t done anything check yet check out mediatemple.com/webhosting/dv/
I’m going to be moving F of RE Tech also and upgrading also and putting up new theme over the next few weeks.
March 22, 2007 — 11:41 pm