I just had to wake up our webmaster. The site had been down for fifty minutes and that was enough downtime. He had said to call, what ever time of day it is, if the site was ever down, so even though I felt bad for waking him in the wee hours of the morning, I made the call. Sorry to anyone who tried to visit when it was down. I don’t know what Stuart has done but just minutes after speaking to him, it’s back up and working again. :/

 

The life of a server admin must be a drag at times. It is a 24 hour job. Huge hosting companies must have several employees on 24 hour call. Maybe they even have people who work a night shift in case of hardware failure? It probably doesn’t have quite the allure of a surgeon – no hot doctors or nurses, and it’s not exactly life or death - but someone’s got to do it. I probably watch too much Grey’s Anatomy!