I was down, but now I’m up

October 16th, 2008 | by emontero |

EM was unreachable during most of the day today. The culprit seems to be a deviant configuration file in the web server, as expressed in this email from Scott (a DreamHost customer representative):

Elvis,

Sorry for the trouble. There was a misconfiguration with the web server.
Everything looks to be up and running when tested from a remote network.
If you’re still seeing the other site, try refreshing your browser.  If
that does not help, please let us know.

Thanks!
Scott

At first, I thought EM had been hacked. This rationale, according to my friend Michael, can be easily attributed to Hanlon’s Razor:

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

I’m slowly, but surely, losing my patience. This is the second major downtime in a month.

UPDATE: You may want to update your RSS reader. A friend just told me EM’s feeds appear to be from another source. I just retrieved the feeds using Google Reader and everything seemed fine. Let me know if that’s not the case for you.

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  1. One Response to “I was down, but now I’m up”

  2. By Luis Garcia on Oct 24, 2008 | Reply

    I’m telling you get out, its the second major downtime, but along the way there has been other issues.!

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