Downtime
I recieved an email this morning telling me that my host is shutting down business and will cease trading from this coming Saturday. Although they’ve offered me a chance to move hosts to their new company, I see this as an oppurtunity to move the site to a domain that I control, having bought a resellers package last year (getchore cheap domain space ‘ere! Cheaper than cheap an’ i’m cuttin’ me own throat. Domain Space onna stick for everyone!)
The problem is that while I’m away from home, I have no access to my files or my ftp set up and I can’t access the control panel from behind the firewall in this office. Even if I could, I don’t have the passwords. Hopefully when I get home on Friday I’ll be able to at least make a backup of the database and files straight away and then attempt to get everything restored afterwards. It could also be an appropriate time to upgrade to Wordpress 2.1.
This is basically a simple way of saying this site may not be available for a couple of days next weekend: do not adjust your set.
Although it doesn’t help you remember the passwords, and although I don’t officially condone sneaking out of corporate firewalls, if you need an end point for some sly tunnelling or port translation drop me a mail.
Comment by QE — January 23, 2007 @ 4:22 pm
Or drop me a line if you recall the passwords etc., and I can happily take a Database dump and backup the files for you.
Comment by Lyle — January 23, 2007 @ 9:15 pm