Saturday, June 21, 2014

Bad Month for MSRDL Web Site...

Pardon all the web site problems at the MSRDL web site (www.fireline.org/scanlaws). Seems server-wise, we just haven't been having a good time of it.

Last week, our local server suffered from a lightning strike. It was trashed. We had to put up a backup server. We had to basically start from scratch, putting everything back up from backup, getting all the permissions for all the directories set right, etc. Just when we were back up and running...

...Then something happened at the CORPORATE level at Fireline. Suddenly their servers got hit with something...some worms which knocked out a number of their servers and as a result a whole lot of customers suddenly found that their web sites had completely disappeared...including ours.

We're still trying to get everything back up again from backups. Then we have to set all the dir permissions and other stuff.

"Act-Of-God"-wise, this really has been a pain-in-the-ass few weeks. :(

Fear not, though. We can't be made to disappear that easily. We get knocked off the horse, we just get right back up again and continue riding onwards. To quote the famous Commander Peter Quincy Taggert, "NEVER give up! NEVER surrender! Right?

(long pause, while waiting to see just how many people actually GET that) :)