Site problems
October 28th, 2008 2 Comments
I went on holiday to Glen Esk for a week last week: no mobile phone reception, no Internet connection, just a week of walking the dog, listening to Radio 4 and reading books. Fantastic.
Little did I know that all that while my Web site was unreachable. It wasn't down as such, it was just that before going away I'd changed the home option in the wp_options table in phpMyAdmin to www.itauthor.com instead of www.itauthor.com. This didn't have any bad effect for me immediately - presumably because of some page caching going on either in WordPress or, more likely, my browser - but this change caused www.itauthor.com to be redirected to www.itauthor.com which is already redirected to www.itauthor.com, with the effect that nothing ever got resolved and a page was never displayed.
The itauthor.eu domain is just a temporary home until I rehome my .com domain. Anyway, sorry if you tried to visit the site last week. Mind you the number of emails I received about the site being unavailable (none) suggests that nobody minded too much (or noticed!) that the site took a holiday when I did.
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November 10th, 2008 at 6:19 pm (#)
OR that everyone just reads your RSS feeds... ;-)
November 11th, 2008 at 12:31 pm (#)
That's a good point actually. Hadn't thought of that.
Most of the sites I read regularly I read as a result of a Feedblitz-generated email arriving in my inbox. I wouldn't notice if a site was down. But I might, eventually, wonder why I hadn't been getting any email for the site and might browse over and check - eventually!