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I'm sure that is the question many of you are asking. Let me quickly and efficiently dispatch the questions surrounding this site's sudden downtime.
Firstly, NO, the site's downtime had nothing to do with corporate. Neither did www.thebreakroom.org. Anyone who thinks so is a fool.
I've already explained why Scram and www.thebreakroom.org disappeared. This site went down because my area suffered a power outage lasting 12 hours on Friday evening, while my UPS is good for an hour and a half of backup power. When the power was restored Saturday morning, my Internet service was still down. I didn't have time to get on the phone with my ISP because I had to go to work. I don't think they had customer service hours on Saturday anyway. When I came home Saturday night, the internet was still down. I did some testing, and everything appeared to be fine on my end. Then today rolled around, and I was starting to grow suspicious. I did some more digging in the hour before I had to leave for work, and found out my router had reset itself due to the loss of power, ergo all my port forwarding settings and PPPoE bridging settings were reset to factory default, thus erasing my presence from the internet and the site as well. So I came home and fixed it up. Everything should be back to normal, access wise.
That said, it is clear that I need to appoint another leader who can communicate with you guys. I did not think the downtime would go on as long as it has, so I didn't think it was necessary to post on that Topix thread I noticed you all flocked to. I will take care of that soon. Once again, anyone who actually thinks Target Corporate has sent a cease and desist for the operation of this site is an idiot. Yes, I'm fully aware my personal information is available using a WHOIS search, and I don't really care. I knew that was the price to pay for a .us domain, but all the other ones were taken and I only felt like paying for an el cheapo TLD.
Anywho, carry on. Yes, if you've put it together, I do actually run this site out of my basement on a spare server. This shall continue on in this fashion until the traffic increases so much that my connection suffers. We'll cross that bridge when we get there.
Firstly, NO, the site's downtime had nothing to do with corporate. Neither did www.thebreakroom.org. Anyone who thinks so is a fool.
I've already explained why Scram and www.thebreakroom.org disappeared. This site went down because my area suffered a power outage lasting 12 hours on Friday evening, while my UPS is good for an hour and a half of backup power. When the power was restored Saturday morning, my Internet service was still down. I didn't have time to get on the phone with my ISP because I had to go to work. I don't think they had customer service hours on Saturday anyway. When I came home Saturday night, the internet was still down. I did some testing, and everything appeared to be fine on my end. Then today rolled around, and I was starting to grow suspicious. I did some more digging in the hour before I had to leave for work, and found out my router had reset itself due to the loss of power, ergo all my port forwarding settings and PPPoE bridging settings were reset to factory default, thus erasing my presence from the internet and the site as well. So I came home and fixed it up. Everything should be back to normal, access wise.
That said, it is clear that I need to appoint another leader who can communicate with you guys. I did not think the downtime would go on as long as it has, so I didn't think it was necessary to post on that Topix thread I noticed you all flocked to. I will take care of that soon. Once again, anyone who actually thinks Target Corporate has sent a cease and desist for the operation of this site is an idiot. Yes, I'm fully aware my personal information is available using a WHOIS search, and I don't really care. I knew that was the price to pay for a .us domain, but all the other ones were taken and I only felt like paying for an el cheapo TLD.
Anywho, carry on. Yes, if you've put it together, I do actually run this site out of my basement on a spare server. This shall continue on in this fashion until the traffic increases so much that my connection suffers. We'll cross that bridge when we get there.