Site outage: How to handle?
I recently shifted out of my IIS setup in to a LAMP account. The site’s up time was much better, until yesterday, when suddenly my site was sucked in to the Internet black hole. Repeated help-desk queries pointed me to a routing issue in their end. Finally it got resolved after nearly 7 hours. If you were disappointed (dream on!) to find my site down, I apologize; My site is up again and hopefully will remain so for sometime to come.Due to my site downtime, I got to do other (positive) things.
- Computer offtime: I didn’t get to check my email (my site’s) for the entire black out. I found it actually refreshing! Believe me, it suddenly makes you feel you have more hours per day than usual.
- Got to read some books:
- I got to read the 4 Tamil magazines I bought one month back. No, I am not kidding. I hadn’t even touched those magazines since I bought them last month. I was able to catch up with whats hot (or warm, or cold!) in Gollywood (Tamil film industry) finally.
- Read couple of chapters from the excellent Advanced Windows Debugging (Addison Wesley). Nothing can beat the smell of paper and the feeling of the book in your hand! Kindle won’t be there in my wishlist ever, I guess.
- Sleep: I wouldn’t have believed how refreshing a 3 hours nap could be, if I hadn’t experienced it personally. I woke up fully charged, but soon felt deflated when I found out the site was not up yet. Damn, this site is too much interwoven with my day-to-day activities, more than I’d admit actually.
- TV: Watched Roadies 5.0. Interesting reality show. I wanted Ankita to come in again, but she lost…Hmm, Shambavi being there is also good in a way, as her absence could have reduced the masala in the show.
- Movies: I watched Fargo. I am a big fan of Coen brothers; I am collecting their films, still 5 more to go
Now that the site is up, I am back to my usual blogging self, but I’d surely miss all those other things that I like to do. Computers **do** eat up your time like anything.
Bottomline: Stay away from blogging (and computers) at least a day every week. Enjoy the other good things in life! And, come back to blogging with full josh
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