Comments on: Massive Website Outage

By: Camille

Camille — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:25:21 +0000

I thought about firing off an email too and asking ‘where did my favorite BLOG GO?? HUH??

Go Daddy = Bad Daddy. Bad, bad Daddy.

(Randy: How is your mother-in-law?)

By: Kim Miller

Kim Miller — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:06:16 +0000

Obviously they don’t have access to Sam the Plumber. However, you do, and if you didn’t send him over to GoDaddy you’ve only got yourself to blame.

However (again), you got to play chess with your daughter and she will remember that more than your stories of Sam the Plumber fixing your website.

By: Kristi Holl

Kristi Holl — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:41:33 +0000

You were fortunate that it was only twelve hours. Last June my server was down for four days. The last two days I kept being told the problem had been fixed. A lot of websites–including mine–got moved elsewhere after that. I guess it’s just one of those things that goes with the (modern) territory!
Kristi Holl
Writer’s First Aid blog

By: Hannah L.

Hannah L. — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:51:23 +0000

Oh–so that’s why! Well, I’m glad it’s back up.

Hannah

By: Amy VR

Amy VR — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:36:31 +0000

I was beginning to take it personally… wondering if Error 403 was code for, “I was able to secretly see what you have been writing for NaNoWriMo over the past few days and it was so terrible I decided to ban you from my blog!”

Whew. That’s a relief!

By: Andra M.

Andra M. — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:23:32 +0000

I was also a bit concerned, and feared you didn’t like us no more.

I’m glad to see it wasn’t a total loss and you’re up and running again.

Yeah, how’s your mother-in-law doing?

By: D.E. Hale

D.E. Hale — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:51:38 +0000

I was really wondering, but I figured it would be back up soon. Thankfully, I have NaNoWriMo too keep my busy at the moment.

By: Ellen Weber

Ellen Weber — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:56:44 +0000

Great sight here Randy, and it was just the find I needed today. Fiction has little to do with my own blog - as that blog’s about my other life.

But this week I dusted off a novel I wrote while researching and teaching for McGill, up in the high arctic. I’ve decided to spiffy up this novel and see if it has any merit after a few years hiding.

Not sure if anybody out there is interested in reading a story about how an Inuit teacher rattles a white leader’s world, when leadership threatens to destroy her sons’ learning in the High Arctic:-)

But I’d hoped to see what great fiction writers are saying and doing along the way. So I chose your blog as motivator:-) Hopefully I can support another writer or two while I’m here. Thanks for the cool site.

Randy, I hope your mother in law is well again now and am glad to see the wrinkles ironed out of your platform. That can be frustrating on a busy day!

By: Pam Halter

Pam Halter — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:28:37 +0000

I couldn’t get on your site because of the error and then we went away for a long weekend. I’m glad to be back home and also to see that everything got fixed.

Hope your MIL is doing well.