ChessieDB Weblog : Difficult Times at ChessieDB HQ

Difficult Times at ChessieDB HQ

Posted on October 05, 2010 at 03:40 PM in categories Website

ChessieDB has been offline on several occasions these past few days. The city damaged our sewer pipe a few weeks ago (unbeknown to us at the time), and the damaged pipe couldn't handle the big rains from last week. Luckily the servers, etc., are up high, so they were saved, but the resulting activities (disaster team cleanup and on-going renovations) have taken their toll. Hopefully things will be a little more stable in the coming days, but there's still plenty of work to do. Once it's done, the servers will have to be moved back down to their usual location, which will cause another outage for a few hours.

So, if you find the ChessieDB website is not responding, a worker might have just un-plugged our ADSL line (as they did a few minutes ago!), and the website should return shortly. :-) Sorry for the inconvenience.

js.

Comments

Posted by on October 05, 2010 at 05:38 PM

thanks for letting us all know - you do a great job

Posted by on October 05, 2010 at 06:09 PM

sorry you have to cleanup...it's no fun. thanks though for the update!

Posted by on October 05, 2010 at 07:10 PM

Oh my talk about a disaster -- my sympathies -- by the by just love this site and the work you have done -- as you know I update Ripley consistently as she moves through the CARO levels. Keep updating the pictures of your cutie pie he's so sweet

Posted by on October 05, 2010 at 07:46 PM

Jeeze...I hope things get cleaned up OK for you.

I was having Chessie DB withdrawl! I am glad it was nothing permanant!

Posted by on October 06, 2010 at 06:33 AM

Sorry for your discomfort. Thank you for letting us know.

Posted by on October 07, 2010 at 04:29 PM

Thank you for the update and yes you guess do a terrific job.

Posted by on October 07, 2010 at 04:30 PM

I made a small wee typo, you guys to a terrific job.

Posted by on October 24, 2010 at 05:18 PM

Thanks everyone for your kind words. The last of the paint is going on this week and the washer / dryer are coming in on Friday (looking forward to that). :-) The servers should make their way back down in the coming days, so if the website is down, it should only be for a few hours.

Thanks,
js.