If you’ve visited Word Helper over the last couple of days you may have noticed all has not been well.<\/p>\n
It started on Tuesday when I did a routine upgrade to the web server.\u00a0 It should have taken less than 2 minutes and then been back up as normal.\u00a0 Sadly things didn’t go smoothly, and the server failed to reboot.<\/p>\n
I then tried to start my backup web server that I keep for such occasions, and I swapped over to that server.\u00a0 Unfortunately I found that I hadn’t updated that server when I moved Scrabble Helper to Word Helper, so it didn’t have the Word Helper site on it.\u00a0 As a result anyone visiting Word Helper got redirected to my main company homepage (Richard Loxley Ltd).\u00a0 I tried to restore the Word Helper site from my backups, but then discovered a problem with my backups!<\/p>\n
So I had to get the original server back up.\u00a0 It took about 2 hours, and then it can take a while for all the DNS servers on the internet to notice the original server is back up, so some people saw the Richard Loxley Ltd page for longer than that.\u00a0 Oops – sorry \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n
I then had to fix the bigger problems with the original server, which I’ve been doing over the last 2 days.\u00a0 Luckily I was able to do that without too much downtime – but I did have to restart the server several times over the last 2 days, so you may have noticed a few occasions when the page didn’t respond for a minute or two.<\/p>\n
I believe that everything is back to normal now.\u00a0 If you’re still having problems then please contact me<\/a> and I’ll try to sort it out.<\/p>\n Sorry for messing up \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you’ve visited Word Helper over the last couple of days you may have noticed all has not been well. It started on Tuesday when I did a routine upgrade to the web server.\u00a0 It should have taken less than … Continue reading