05 September 2005
This is a test. Movable Type, while much prettier than Greymatter, is very very much more complicated and non-intuitive (in my mind). I have to thank Rob for installing it all, otherwise I wouldn't have even got this far.
So, here's the deal with the site:
I noticed it went down Friday morning, so I e-mailed the hosting company. The helpdesk got back to me, rather nicely, and said that the machine that had been hosting it had been running at 100% the night before, which they tracked down to a script which was using 95%. The script's name? Twelve22. I didn't have any script actually named twelve22, but obviously it came from my domain (I found out that it was something in Greymatter that had gone a bit mad), so they had to switch it off.
The man very kindly said he understood it hadn't been a malicious or intended act on my part, but they had to close the account to keep the server from crashing. I had to contact the billing department to see about reactivating the account.
Billing said no-way-no-how were they going to give me my account back -- but they would credit my card for the unused services. Rob had the idea to host twelve22.org on one of our (his) machines at home, so that's currently where it is. He installed Movable Type at my request, to avoid any future problems with Greymatter.
And, now. . . I just have to figure out how to work Movable Type. Everything will probably be down for quite some time, and thingsivemade.com is missing as well (it was hosted on the same account as twelve22.org). Ignore all the style-less pages (comment forms, etc). I'll get there eventually. Ho hum.
Test comment. Never mind me.
posted by Anna at September 5, 2005 08:41 PM
Glad your back. Just found your site a little more than a week ago - through the Finsters, or your comment on it anyway - and then "poof" it was gone. I love finding wacky finch people - I aspire to be one soneday.
posted by Jen at September 9, 2005 06:13 PM