Network / Server Outage [RESOLVED]

Due to a network problem the main Kalendale.com server has been unavailable from 14:50 through to 19:10 (roughly speaking). This outage was outside of my control - sorry.

The server continued to function albeit all by itself in a very lonely place - off the internet - so when the network was re-connected everything sprung back into life. During this time I set up a DNS switching system to switch the main kalendale.com and webspider.org sites across to a different server so that people could at least see that there was a problem. The DNS switching has worked very nicely but DNS time-to-live values need to be adjusted to make the switching a bit faster next time. Needless to say the server minitoring system spent 4 hours complaining about not being able to reach anything and had a tonne of emails waiting to send to me - hope I did not delete anything important in cleaning out my mailbox!

When I do get some down-time I will try to get backup sites running so that when/if this does happen again we can switch to backyp machines and continue working without too much interruption.

Regards

-DJ

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