blogs.setonhill.edu is down
I’ve notified the server admin, who says he’ll won’t be able to look at it until early this evening.
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Ping-pong… it’s up again. 6pm.
After about 3 or 4 hours up, it just went down again around 3:30. Sigh. I’ll let people know what’s happening as soon as I know.
Believe me, I’ve been extremely troubled by the timing… as far as the deadline goes, obviously you can’t work on the project while the site is down, so I do plan to be flexible. As soon as I know more, I’ll post it here. I last heard from the sysadmin at about 10am today.
So they don’t know how long it will be out? I was just going to complete my Portfolio 2 due Thursday.
Just heard from Dave, the sysadmin: “The server is fine and your data is fine.” Apparently some problem with the ISP (that is, the connection between the server and the rest of the Internet).
Nope, this isn’t the planned server move. I got a brief message from the sysadmin around 5pm today, and have heard nothing since. I just sent a polite query a few moments ago.
From the sysadmin:
Total Downtime: about 20 hours.
I’ll extend the deadline for EL 267 to any time on Friday.
Is this the traveling server thing that you have been warning us about, or something else?
Ouch! That’s terribly painful to hear… my heart goes out to you.
Dennis, Yes, I know how it feels when technology crashes and burns. It happened to me in San Antonio. I was told an LCD projector would be available for me, so I took my article, and condensed PowerPoint. I learned disgustedly that LCD projectors were available for $550 per day (broke college students carry that in their back pocket), became flustered, and watched my presentation *bleep!*