Database Server Falls Over - Not Many Hurt

Apologies for the absence of Articles & Texticles yesterday, my web hosting company (1and1.co.uk) were doing something unspeakable to the MySQL database servers and it took this site down for a few hours.

I’m always a bit suspicious when I see the visitor stats crash down to almost nothing…

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Fortunately there is a real time information feed to the server data centre, that shows exactly what’s going on at the web hosting company.
Click the image below…

This entry was written by michael, posted on 2 March, 2008 at 5:33 pm, filed under Announcement and tagged , 1and1, database, MySQL, outage, web hosting. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

4 Comments

will

Posted 3 March, 2008 at 1:49 am | Permalink

Hello, How do you make your thumbnail enlarge with the overlay like that? Is is a word press extension?
Andrei

Posted 3 March, 2008 at 9:41 am | Permalink

I see.:o)
michael

Posted 3 March, 2008 at 9:41 am | Permalink

m3nt0r.deHi Will, You’re right, it is a WordPress plugin called LightBox2.
You can get it from Kjell Bublitz at http://www.m3nt0r.de/blog/lightbox-wordpress-plugin/

Now if I could just find a plugin that stopped these URLs from getting mangled in the comment boxes, I’d be happy.
will

Posted 3 March, 2008 at 11:09 pm | Permalink

Thanks!