As most readers already know, Gates of Vienna has been experiencing server issues for the past few days. The crisis came to a head yesterday (Sunday), when we were completely derailed and thrown temporarily offline. The hard-working techies have been at it since then.
Naturally, the site went live after I gave up waiting and went to do the shopping — is it ever any other way? But now normal operations can resume.
I’ll combine material from yesterday’s news feed with today’s, and post a single large news feed tonight.
Whether it is helpful or not, I kept getting a blank page with a caption at the top left hand corner telling me your site was being upgraded? I knew you were experiencing ‘difficulties’ but wondered all the same why that caption would appear.
Enjoy the shopping?
Yes, that was deliberate. During the outage, an out-of-date cached version of GoV was being displayed. I asked the hosting service if anything could be done about that until our problems were fixed, so the tech support guy put up that message for me.
Thank you Baron, I’ll remember that next time.
Update:
We found the root cause of the problem. It has now been resolved in principle, but will take a little while (like a day, perhaps two) to come into effect worldwide.
After that, GoV should be a lot more stable than it’s been over the summer.
And we can relax a bit – or more likely, busy ourselves with other interesting stuff!