Technical Difficulties
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
UPDATE: The technical difficulties appear to have been resolved. We’ll keep our fingers crossed that the site stays up.
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Okay so we appear to be having technical difficulties at the main Scrap Exchange website (www.scrapexchange.org). The website is down, with a weird generic page in its place. This is a problem given that we are one day away from the end of our fundraiser.
I think God hates us.
We’ve called our web host and sent emails and are hoping the situation is resolved quickly, but it’s been like this for a few hours already so it’s clearly not being resolved as quickly as we’d like.
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And I would say we should sack the IT people but I am the IT people and if I get sacked there will be no website at all, which hardly seems like an improvement.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 3:28 pm
I just checked (3:27pm EST) and your homepage is up and working both on the PC and Macsides.
(Don’t you know to call me first to verify?)
– Tom
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 5:05 pm
Do you mean you can fix it just by checking? Awesome!
Not sure how long it was down, one message from a friend sent at 11:30am, one from a different friend sent at 2:30pm, both wondering what was going on. I decided to go fix something to eat and stop checking it to see if it was back up again, it was making me crazy.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 6:32 pm
Well, now I’m just hurt you didn’t give me a call early in the day.
– Tom
Tuesday, September 20, 2011 at 7:22 pm
Well to clarify my last comment, before going to fix something to eat, I called the web host person and and sent him an email and had Ann call him and put up a post on the Scrap blog and on my blog saying that there were technical problems. A little while later he called Ann and said he was working on it and it should be fixed within an hour. That’s when I decided to go eat instead of constantly checking to see if it was back up yet.
Is this really something that someone other than the web host could have fixed?