Apology for Downtime!
October 17th, 2008As you are all aware we moved hosting provider last week and are now been hosted on solar powered clustered servers, Unfortunately it was a cloudy day and there was just about enough electricity generated to make a mug of coffee so we were down for approximately 18 hours which was indeed a long time, apparently our new host iMountain have now installed a backup bicycle which has been wired into a battery so the staff now take turns when the sun goes down to cycle the bicycle to keep LoboLinks up and running.
In fairness to iMountain I was notified of the downtime in advance, this was annual maintenance? which needed to be carried out and there track record up to this point was 99.99% uptime.
The more 9?s you add to that server uptime figure and the more redundancy you require for your website the more its going to cost to host.
Yes I still recommend iMountain as a host, and I do sleep better knowing I am saving the planet by lowering LoboLinks carbon footprint!
And again my sincerest apology?s to our customers and readers for being down last night and this morning.
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By Karina Harris on Oct 20, 2008 | Reply
I haven’t heard of iMountain before, but it is definitely a great thing you are doing by being hosted by them to reduce your carbon footprint. Good job and if they have had 99.99% uptime before this ordeal then there really is no problem with them in the least.