Some of you may have noticed that the blog has been down for a couple of days. We had a server move that didn’t go as smoothly as expected. Now I have all of this pent up commentary but no time to write at the moment… more to come :)
Hallelujah and Pass the Tylenol
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0900, 16 January 2020
I may be the ONLY one interested, but I would love to know the story of the failed migration to a new server.
#ITManagerHere
File backup, database backup, upload, tweak wp-config, bing-bang-boom, what can go wrong? Certs?
If it was a virus or bug, my money is on it being liberal.
About 9 years ago Ann Althouse had major issues with making some kind of move on Blogger. One of the issues for her was the size – she had 7000 posts in her archive, and 1.8G file.
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/07/hello-i-am-on-blogger-team-and-am-one.html
Well, our site and back end is over 150GB, so it was not an insignificant move. I don’t know the details, but I’m happy that we’re back up :)
Congrats. Nice to have you back.