Late in the dark recesses of Thursday night, the site disappeared.
Bam. Gone. Nothing there. No files, no folders, no ones, no zeroes. Just a big fat zero of emptiness where the site should be.
Something you may not know is that what you can see and click on at the moment here at olilolo is just the tip of the iceberg, metaphorically speaking, of what is actually contained on our server. There’s actually a bunch of stuff hidden behind the scenes, site notes and test-templates and half-written articles and basically what amounts to about three years worth of (admittedly half0arsed) work by the five olilolo members.
That was all gone. Clothes were rent, teeth were gnashed, accusations were laid. By common consensus, Bruce was held personally responsible. Reluctantly, we realised it couldn’t possibly be his fault, and lowered him from over the spike pit.
Eventually, we found out our server company had been doing a move, and had transferred our files across to a new server…except they hadn’t got there. To add insult to hideous injury, they told us, live over the phone that yes, there were service people there right now who could fix the problem, but they wouldn’t, because our hosting plan doesn’t cover weekend service. We are currently looking for a new server company. If you know of one, let us know!
However, soon after, Bruce did some digging. All the files still existed, they just weren’t…available. I don’t know, he said some computery stuff and I tuned out for a bit. He seemed happy, so I let him talk for a while. When he finished and asked me if I was okay, I asked him if we could get everything back and he said we could. And we did. Sometime this afternoon, everything just started…working again. Well, most of it. There’s still a few holes that we hope are just server problems that will be sorted out once the move is finalised. But otherwise we’re back in business.
Well, if your business is crapping out a few lame blog posts a month and tinkering with a site you’re secretly sure will never get off the ground…