Allpar fails again!

Those of you who have stuck with us for a while must be wondering whether we ever left our old “lots of pipelines with lots of single points of failure” service provider, with the big hour-long downtime today. Well, there’s a simple explanation. I need reading glasses but I don’t wear them.

I’ve been advised to move up to php5, and I thought I’d set up a configuration in the server’s “easy to use” control panel and then save it and run it by the team at Liquidweb. Then I clicked on the wrong button, and the program proceeded to build - or try to build - the system again. Only it screwed everything up, particularly php.

At that point I’d had enough and Liquidweb came in to rebuild everything. They had some problems getting Apache to run until they realized it just wouldn’t take ioncube - which is now out. SSL is also out.

Well, it’s all back now, but don’t be surprised if we have the odd momentary downtime later. On the lighter side, the scripts all seem to work, and just as importantly, all the pages are back. So I apologize for the outage, while being happy with the service overall.

Next time, I’ll just ask THEM to do it!