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| » POSTED ON: 4/20/2011 11:16:48 PM | MOOD:
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So, here we are! Which is a good thing, because a little while ago, none of us could be here! I would like to apologize for anybody who could not access TGBob.com earlier today... Well, I'd like to, but an apology normally means that you need to make amends for some error you caused. This was not the case, as I had absolutely nothing to do with the site being down! Nothing at all! It was completely out of my control! I was pretty much stranded, watching helplessly on the sidelines, as others worked on trying to get my problem resolved. That's what happens when you experience an act of God! (technical term, by the way! ^_^ )
As local news and the Weather Channel has been reporting, there have been some crazy storms moving through our area. We're not getting hit as hard as some areas of the country, but we've still experienced our fair share of heavy rain and awesome winds. Apparently, last night, a huge one rolled through while I was sound asleep in bed. During the course of the onslaught we experienced, the storm ended up knocking out some fiber-optic cables that killed internet access to my webhost! So around 2am last night, all of the sites hosted by that hosting company ended up being inaccessible.
The crazy thing about it was that apparently, it was not that simple to fix. Sure, it's easy to fix a cable for somebody who knows how to do that stuff, but the big problem I deciphered, after talking to my contact at the hosting company, was that AT&T could not quickly find where the downage occurred! They pretty much had to go on a hunt to find the cables that were affected in order to patch them up! Add in the fact that since it happened in the middle of the night, nobody noticed the outage initially, and you've got yourself an extended outage!
So, I guess if anything, I'm sorry that none of us could access the site... not that it was my fault, but I'm sorry that we were all deprived of being able to visit this place! I know, egotistical, but I'm glad to be back up! Hope you are, too!
-- TG
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