Forced Downtime
Some of you may already be already aware of the situation that many hours ago. For those of you aren't, I'll fill you in. My web hosting company is HostNine in Jupiter, Florida and my blog physically resides on a server at the H1 datacenter for The Planet in Houston, Texas.
On Saturday evening (my Sunday morning), a transformer in the datacenter caught fire and the fire department ordered the entire facility shut down. After reading updates on community forums for both sites, I discovered there was no way to tell when the service would be restored. The total downtime ended up being somewhere between 35 and 36 hours.
A blessing in disguise?
The downtime gave me time to breathe and time to think. I had time to research several keywords for niche sites I'm contemplating in the near future. The first niche site is almost done, needing just one plugin installed and two posts added. At least, that's all I think it needs but now I'll have to double-check everything. It would have been done on Saturday if this incident hadn't happened. James at Men with Pens said it would give me more time to write, but he doesn't understand how little I've been writing these days.
I now have 4, 5 or 6 niche websites to complete and the last two depend on other factors besides my desire to do them. There has to be enough information available to work with.
Anyway, I'll be back in several hours with at least another blog review. I still have to check things because some plugins are behaving badly.
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hi RT, I was checking your website yesterday to see if you'd made any new posts, and couldn't get on. I was wondering if you knew it was down. 70 to 72 hours down?! (edit: is that right if it went down Saturday eve and was back up Monday morning?) Wow, that's a lifetime in e-commerce (though over the weekend is better than during the week). It doesn't sound like it was your host's fault, but what have you thought of them so far. Would you recommend them? Steve
HostNine has had excellent customer support since the start or I wouldn't haven renewed with them for a second year. Even the people at The Planet did what they could considering what they were ordered to do. Wait… I think I have to fix the hours. It was half of that. 24 + 12, a day and a half, not 3 days. Duh…
I thought you were playing hide-and-go-seek with us. 1-2-3 on R.T.!
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Well that's good that you got to rest during the down time. Every needs a little R&R now and then.
I'm sorry to hear about the down time with the servers. On a different note, is your "shared hosting" plan a good solution for a new Wordpress blog? The blog won't be used for link bait or anything like that so I'm sure traffic will be on the low side. Also at this point I don't think I will need a ton of storage.
Thanks
It works well for multiple WordPress blogs. I used the standard plan, not the basic plan. It's twice as much as the basic, but worth every penny.
I'm sorry to hear about the website being down. Hopefully it didn't affect to many things and obviously from the comments your readers came back.