Middleyouth.net Downtime

A couple of days ago, Middleyouth.net went down, due to a database crash. A support guy from my web hosting company informed me that the database had become corrupted.

How does things like that happen, really? Is it a 0 somewhere in the code that suddenly decides it wants to be a 1? One that looks around and feels the grass is probably greener on the other side of the binary fence? Like: “Those 1’s…man, they’ve got it made. They’re better looking, have better benefits…they’re 1’s, for God’s sake. We’re 0’s. Zeros. I can’t take it anymore, I’m gonna be a 1 too. There. Oops…what happened? Did I do that?” Or something like that. :-)

Who knows?

Anyway, the site is back up again (which is obvious if you can read this :-D ), but the restore resulted in the creation of a lot of junk characters in most of my posts - probably because I sometimes copy and paste these from a word processor.  I think I’ve cleaned these up now, but should you notice strange characters in any existing posts, please let me know.

Lessons learned: more frequent backups.

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April 17, 2009 | Filed Under Etc 

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