Friday, February 18, 2005

ThePete.Com--DOWN??

Sorry about the down time, folks! I know what happened, but not how. The what is that suddenly PHP went all wonky. For any non-gearheads out there, PHP is a sort of application that runs on a webserver that allows you to do all sorts of cool stuff. A file that ends in ".php" will automatically engage this app and the app will look for php tags in the .php file. It finds them and then executes php scripts located inside the .php file or another one.

Essentially, PHP is what allows me to run this site. So, logically, when it crashes or fails to run, my site goes kaput.

I can't complain too much to my host, either--they've been rock solid for me for years. I think it's been something like 4 or 5 years I've been with them. Allwebco.com is a great host and I still love them. One bad day does not make me want to run to another host. Their prices are fairly competitive, but it's their service that's kept me with them all these years.

Anyway, so they are investigating why PHP stopped working on my server and I seriously doubt it'll happen again. So, again, apologies for the downtime! It (hopefully) won't happen again.

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