You may have noticed that Krimson News went down completely early this morning.  Without notice from the hosting company, the folks at T_____ first set all file systems on the virtual hosts sharing this particular server to read-only, causing fun problems like failed SQL queries that you may have found on the KN web site early on today, and then took down the server completely for the rest of the day, which resulted in a total outage of all web sites hosted on that machine (not just ours, but many other customers’ as well).  The culprit: faulty hardware.

About half an hour ago, the admins returned the server back to life, and so Krimson News is back among the living.  An initial frolic through most sections makes me think that everything is working as it should.  However, if you do happen to find anything that doesn’t work as expected, or if you see error messages, please e-mail me at admin@krimson-news.com.

I’m very unhappy about the almost day-long outage period, but this time around the matter was outside of Jeff’s and my sphere of influence.

Cheers,

Nadim