Sometimes in life disaster strikes. But it’s no good crying over spilt milk! You just have to dust yourself down and get on with life …
It’s been almost two weeks since I’ve been able to blog. The blog was hosted by Demon Internet who seem to experienced some kind of dramatic failure which has seen all of their customers loose their web access for over a week. And Demon seem to have only been able to re-set their servers by wiping all of their data. I do have a reasonably recent backup of the blog but I can’t get the new provider’s SQL service to upload it. I’m still working on this but it looks as if everything will have to start afresh!
Still the main thing is that I’m here, with a new provider and a new address.
Normal service will be resumed! (That Dunkirk spirit is still strong you know).
Anyhow, please let me know that there is someone out there – anyone?
Welcome to your new home Andy – when is the blog-warming party?!!
Hmm, I’ll have to think about something suitable
Your the first to find your way here Matt. Congratulations!
Good to see you back
George
Hurra…welcome back!!
Wishing you luck with the recovery of your “old” entries. Really liked the content and recommended it to friends of mine for reference.
And by the way..the tent from BigSky did arrive in the meantime. Almost couldn’t believe it…
Roman
Roman,
The archive is looking a little tricky, The problem with it is that my last back-up included some corrupt data I think – but I don’t know exactly where.
Good news about the BigSky – interested in how it coped.
Welcome back Andy – I look forward to the new blog – its become essential reading for us deskbound backpackers !
Congrats. You have been missed by many.
Kind regards
Trevor
Welcome back big fella – you’re public missed you!
welcome back stranger
Andy,
Didn’t realise your site was down…. the RSS feed did go a bit quiet I have to say.
As a manager of an ISP area I am amazed at the way you lost your data with Demon. They are clearly not the same company I worked with all those years ago.
Have you tried combing Google for cached versions of your old pages? Just a thought.
Andy,
If it is of any help, I have still got access (must have saved them locally) to your old RSS feed with entries dated 23/07 to 06/08 incl if you wanted them sent on.
Baz
Demon certainly are not the same old company. I first had a demon account in the very early days when Cliff was trying to get his first 100 takers. I’m not sure I was in the first 100 but I wasn’t far behind.
I can’t describe how bad they’ve been over this last period. If you’re lucky you can get a good support person on the phone in the middle of the night. But emails go un-answered and nobody picks the phone up during the day.
I’m not sure what happened to them – but it must have been pretty big.
Sucked up and spat out by Thus, alas.
There was such energy in that company back then – they’d take on undergrads and try out daft things. I think it was in Finchley where they bought up an old bank across the road from them and filled it with modems – at 6pm the room warmed and the sound of relays was intense! Then there was this large server they bought, fitted on the first floor…. it was too heavy and fell through!
Ah, but there’s no *fun* left in it all these days…..
Well, they’re still breaking things
Even as a customer there was a lovely pioneering feel about it. Find memories. Though I was CIX person as well and I really miss that.