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!