So, at last, we’re back on. It’s been a rough couple of days for Dale, who really worked hard to track down the problem.
First, it looked like RAM might be the problem. New memory didn’t help, however, so the next thing was maybe a bad/failing hard drive. And it was when he tried to install the OS on another drive that the real cause cropped up. Kinda sorta.
It was the computer itself. Exactly where is unknown. BIOS? Motherboard? Didn’t matter. It was simpler to just move to another machine. Simpler being a relative term in this case.
Now that the site is up again, I’ve posted for all three days (changing the time stamp as appropriate), Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday (today). And keep your fingers crossed that everything holds together now. Whew!
“Keep your fingers cross?” Since when do giant female scorpions have fingers?
would suggesting keep her ‘leggs’ crossed then be a sexest remark?
but then cgw she didn’t say SHE was keeping her fingers crossed, merely asked US to keep ours crossed.
Welcome back, Scorpia! I was wondering if the plug had been pulled after reading so many previous comments about having no money for upgrades. Looks like the money for upgrades issue applies to Scorpia and not her hosting service. *Crossing fingers* so that I can keep enjoying a better quality of interaction than the many message boards I’ve been a member of.
I am glad to see you back up. When troubleshooting gets down to the component level on the motherboard it’s usually more expedient and often cheaper to replace than repair.
Hopefully no data was lost due to database corruption or other factors.
My feed’s still starving. Is everyone else getting feeds?
“The Long and Winding Road?” Wasn’t that a song by the Beatles?
if NOT the title of, a line within one.
Yeah gb, there are still some tweaks needed under the hood. We were down for awhile this morning as Dale worked on some more fixes.
So far as we can tell, all the data is fine, and nothing has been lost.
Yeah, “Long And Widning Road” is a Beatles song. Seemed appropriate ;)
Scorpia, what does “widning” mean?