blogs.setonhill.edu is down

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.

A shout out to Rachel Crump, who was just about to give an oral presentation on Dungeons & Dragons when the blogs went down at about 3:45 … she had prepared thoroughly enough that she did a smashing job anyway, but what a nightmare!

I always bring a plain paper version of my talk, since I’ve seen plenty of presenters who were depending on technology crash and burn.

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  • 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:

    Dennis,
    I harrassed the hell out of my ISP and finally got them to fix things.
    You're back on. Sorry for the downtime.
    David

    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?

  • 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!*

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