If you tried to communicate with me in the last day or so, you might have had a problem. Our hosting company is located in Eastern Washington, which had a huge series of thunderstorms yesterday. Something related to the storm caused our dedicated server to take a dive.
When you have as many Web sites as we do, putting them all back online takes some time. Sadly, this is not the first time James has had to rebuild our server after a crash. It’s just as unpleasant the second time around. However, once again, we did have backups and didn’t lose data. (YAY!)
Anyway, suffice it to say, it’s been a long couple days, particularly for him.
Of course, the thunderstorms didn’t stop in Eastern Washington either. The thunderstorms moved into our area and resulted in power flickers and four nervous dogs panting in my office. I had to cancel the radio show I had scheduled in the afternoon. Of course, later in the afternoon, I discovered that all the outgoing email I thought was going out was NOT. So the person I was supposed to interview didn’t know about the storms. (I left her an apologetic phone message.)
I also learned that it’s really distressing to get email coming in and not be able to respond. (I’ve made a lot of phone calls yesterday and today!)
Plus, I haven’t gotten much sleep because of all the thunderstorms/nervous dogs. But hey, weather happens. There’s not much I can do. Except offer to make dinner, even though it’s James’ night to cook.
After all, having to be the server administrator is a thankless job. When you’re done, all you get is everything (hopefully) working again the way it was. So the least I can do is make James some food.