Downtime Today

(cross-posted from my business Blog)

This morning at 8:00 A.M. there was some planned downtime. Apparently one of the hard drives that power the server that my account and everyone else that is on this server; decided that it was ready for retirement. In other words, it was going bad. So, My Host, which is, HostMist; decided to move me to a different server. So, as a result, I was down for about 30 minutes, while the technical folks moved me off of that machine and onto another one.

The sad reality is that there is no such thing as a perfect server. Selling points and B.S. aside, as long as there is physical hardware involved with hosting websites, blogs, forums and the like; something, somewhere is going fail sometime.

I would like to commend HostMist and his upstream provider for getting things back up as quick as they did. Hopefully, this will be the last of the downtime.