Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 15:04:56 -0500 (EST)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] WSFA web site up again
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

The WSFA web site was down from 2:02 pm yesterday until 1:34 pm
today.  I didn't notice it was down until late last night.  I phoned
hosting.com as soon as I got up today, after confirming that it was
still down.  "Tom" told me that we had asked for it to be shut down,
but since their records showed conflicting information, he would give
us "the benefit of the doubt" and turn it back on.

At 12:58 pm it came up, but the directory structure was screwed
up.  Wherever one would previously have used "http://www.wsfa.org/"
in a URL, one now had to use "http://www.wsfa.org/wsfa/" instead.
At 1:20 I called back, got Tom again, and explained the problem.
He said they were still "migrating" us, and to "have faith".

It's now back to normal, except that there are two copies of
everything, one at "http://www.wsfa.org/" and a second identical one
at "http://www.wsfa.org/wsfa/".  I've confirmed that the latter is
not simply a pointer to the former -- changes made to one don't apply
to the other.  Maybe the latter will soon go away.  Even if not, it's
harmless, unless it means we'll be billed for excess disk space usage.

I wonder if it was incompetence or someone's malice that caused them
to think we wanted to close the account.  Does WSFA have any enemies?
Can anyone phone them, claim to be us, and cancel our account, or do
they make sure it's really us?

Reminder:  If you need to see something on our website (e.g. the
directions to the Madigans'), but it's down, you can use the mirror
site.  For every page under http://www.wsfa.org/ there should always
be an identical page under http://keithlynch.net/wsfa/.  Since these
are hosted by different companies in locations a thousand miles apart,
they should never both be down at the same time.  Or almost never.
If both average 99.8% uptime, then at least one of them should be
up 99.9996% of the time.  That's less than four hours downtime per
century.
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