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Fr, I respectfully suggest you change registrars. The warning message emails from Network Solutions or GoDaddy are pretty annoying, but they sure beat “This domain has expired” on the expiration day…
At least the comments are working again. Yeah!
Thank you for the “heads up” Father! I kept checking in all afternoon and was becoming worried! I feared the blog was no more! Good luck with getting everything squared away. Isn’t technology great? ;-)
When things settle down a bit, I will be making some changes so that this doesn’t happen again.
Oddly, I never lost access either on the computer or on my phone.
You’re getting through to Italy, Father…but I was a tad worried around 10 when I kept getting a travel agent site.
Father:
You could still see it because you happened to have caught it just right. The DNS servers in your area hadn’t updated from the root server on the same schedule as the DNS servers in those affected geographical areas. Luckily it was caught before all the servers updated. Just so you know, it will be at least 24hrs until all the correct changes propogate from the root to the edge servers.
I suppose we can offer up the stress, confusion, etc.
Best wishes,
Ed Casey
Michael: If you are getting the blog, after getting that other site, then I think the problem is over, for most of Italy at least.
Ed: The fact is that this little bit of disaster has also reconfirmed something that I sometimes forget, in all the frustrations I have with keeping this blog going:
People do read, and they care about it when there are problems.
Father:
Indeed, we read and care, and are inspired, much more than mere words can convey, and greater than you can know.
Ed
Just wanted you to know that I was unable to access you at San Diego State University earlier this afternoon, but am getting you at home about two hours later.
Here in Colorado, it went down at about 1400 MDT, came up again about an hour later, went down for a while, and has been up again since 1630 or so.
I don’t know about the rest of the eastern seaboard, but Florida is working just fine.
Terth: I wonder if that isn’t the first time in a long time that “technical”, “Florida” and “working just fine” have been written.
I am from Germany, and while your site wasn’t accessible a few hours ago, all is well again by now. BTW, thanks a lot for your good work which is being appreciated a lot!
Dear Fr. Z,
A New Mexican checking in! I couldn’t access your blog this afternoon, but I can now.
I missed you!
I’m sorry about your troubles. Hopefully you’ll have it resolved soon.
I could’nt access it from 4:30 until now, just about 9:00. I got so scared I made a post on my blog about it!
Tacoma Washington checks in… so far as I know, we never lost you.
Father Z:
What I’m getting is a generic site with travel, shopping and car links.
Conspiracy theories would not be out of place, as well as the stupid Devil.
It’s working for this Boston lady now. Earlier, I was advised to (a) choose the apartment of my dreams and (b) the former owner of the domain had let it expired.
Alleluia, the domain is back!
FEEDS are not working right.
Matt Q: No, this was, at its basis, incompetence.
Father,
No problem at all in Lancaster, PA, this evening.
Father,
Was able to acces in Texas all afternoon and now. Glad your back.
St. Louis, Missouri no problem.
Father,
Glad to see you back, it was a bit discomforting to see some generic ad page instead of your blog. However, your site going down today made me do some checking of my own domain names (I have two) the one I use for my real life job (real estate) expires in two days so I’ll renew that one ASAP. I never got emails about my other domain name and when it expired I had to pay a hefty $90 to restore it, before it got auctioned off. Not pleasant, as I really didn’t need to spend money for not paying attention. I’m glad yours was just a mistake on the part of your old hosting provider and all is well. And yes, you were down in New Mexico earlier, when I wanted to post a link to your online confession post.
What got me was that the main page showed up just fine. It was the comment pages that showed the adds.
Hey Father, my wise out Aunt would say…”Remember, it is LENT after all!”
We have had many things to offer up just this week.
Brian: The comment page showed the ads? Weird!
Fr. Z,
Yes, it was just on the comment pages. I know that the email I sent you with the screen capture is looooonnnnnnng gone, but if you looked at the address bar, it clearly shows it was on a comment page.