Sorry to disappoint but deadlists.com is not hosted on mission-critical servers that guarantee 99.9999% uptime.
Here are the facts: If it's up... Then it's down... 95% 438 hours 99.9% 8hrs, 45min, 36 sec 99.9999% 31.68 seconds I am guaranteed an uptime of 99.5% from my hosting ISP. Therefore I question your claim that the site at www.deadlists.com is down as much as you suggest. Of course, I base this on the emails I receive when it is in fact down - I count none (aside from the curlygirl issue) since deadlists moved to it's current ISP home this past fall. What the guarantee means is that I can be reimbursed my monthly hosting fees for deadlists for the down time, so the reality is that compensation is negligible. The curlygirl problem you experienced today is in fact a server application error that my hosting service has been trying to fix. This has only happened twice and I can fix it immediately once it's detected. I would expect that you should not see this problem any more. As for updating on downtime/maintenance, I have updated the site on all occassions when I am doing something that might impact service, however, for those other ~45 hours I cannot predict it. Lastly, the discussion forum/mailing list is hosted in another location. Thanks, Kevin > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of e4fx > Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 1:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: What's up with web site? > > Hi all: > > Just wondering what's been going on with the "Deadlists" website. > > These last couple months it has often been inaccessible. Sometimes it's > just the discussion section, on other occasions the whole site is > unavailable. Back in late May - early June, for example, the discussion > page it was down for at least a couple of weeks. When it reappeared it > contained none of the email discussion from that period. > > I know keeping web sites functioning properly can be difficult. There has > never been, however, any update provided to the email list regarding these > events. Can you at least let us know what's going on? > > Today, 7/2/03 (~ 1:45pm PDT), when I tried to open the official home page > " > www.deadlists.com ", I got a page: "Curly Girl Greetings". I refreshed a > few times, but still got this weird greeting card site. What's a little > more frightening is that when I tried to open the old "shallwego.net" site > - both " www.shallwego.net " and " shallwego.net ", I got the same "Curly > Girl" page. (I could reach the search form at > "www.shallwego.net/deadlists/searchform.asp" , but all searches ended in > error.) > > Can the webmaster or someone else who monitors this site please provide > some information? > > Thanks a lot. > > Best, > Eric > > At 11:35 AM 7/1/03, you wrote: > >The official www site is www.deadlists.com
