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Site Gone - Vanished - Where? |
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By Steven McCabe on
17/08/2007
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One of the pitfalls of running a few websites is the constant worry that they are always going to be available. I mean, a visitor may happen along to purchase a cd or something and the sale is gone due to the site not appearing. Well, this happened yesterday. I lost both this site and the Proximity Records website. Both homepages reported varying degrees of database errors. Given that there had been no work on the databases from me for some time, I could only conclude that the fault was at the host end. Which is in the USA. Which meant that the delay between reporting it and getting a reply was around 8 hours.
In any event, it got sorted, though I have yet to recieve an explanation for the downtime, which, I might add, is very rare: my US based hosts are prettty much fantastic.
Still, we're back and that's the main thing!
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Website Woes . . . and then some! |
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By Steven McCabe on
18/07/2007
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Well, how can I best describe the misery I have endured since Friday the 13th last week? It all began when I was checking my email and found that I couldn't access it. Puzzled, I tried to get at it via the web interface and was greeted with 'no such account' messages. Thinking how odd the whole thing was, I then tried to access my website. Imagine the horror and surprise I felt on discovering a knitting portal in its place!
My immediate reaction was to think I had been hacked - which was unlikely, given the super duper security of my hosts. In the end it turned out that there had been an administrative and communications error and my domain had actually expired! Given that I have owned elegantsimplicity.com since 1999 I was not a happy boy.
Anyway, to stave off too much disaster, I purchased elegantsimplicity.co.uk as a back up / mirror (I h ...
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Interviews! |
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By Steven McCabe on
29/06/2007
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Hurrah! After much messing about, I am pleased to report that the Interviews section is now back on line. Some interviews have yet to make it, but there are some good ones there already. I was quite shocked to discover that the orginal data source was not exactly standards compliant. Anyway, after scripting it out of my original database into a text file, I used Notepad+++ to clean the data before copying and pasting into the interview module.
I will endeavour to get the rest of the interviews in place as soon as time permits. The good news is that now the module is finished, whenever I get sent an interview, I can more or less paste it straight into the module.
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Discography: 50% ready to go! |
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By Steven McCabe on
26/06/2007
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Been working very hard on the new Discography section and I am pleased to report that the code is all finished and I am now in the process of inputting the data. There's a lot of it!
So far, I am up to Palindrome . . . !
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Gallery Updates |
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By Steven McCabe on
29/05/2007
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I noticed the other day that the gallery wasn't displaying the album title and year in the caption if there was a description associated with the image. Not a major annoyance, but an annoyance nonetheless. Anyway, it has now been fixed!
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Share this Page! |
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By Steven McCabe on
22/05/2007
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This evening I added a rather nifty module to the bottom of every page. Entitled Share this Page, the item in question allows the visitor to click on a link and tell the likes of Digg, reddit and what have you all about the website. It might not be the greatest thing to ever happen to a website, but I think it's pretty cool. What do you think?
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