Saturday Downtime
Feb 23rd, 2007 by Don Ray
I received the following email from my hosting provider that they are going to be doing significant maintenance on Saturday. I am really pleased to have been warned and this is one time they won’t see any trouble tickets from me.
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* IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ! *
**************************Thursday, February 22, 2007.
WILL AFFECT ALL VISTAPAGES HOSTING CUSTOMERS.
Dear Customers,
Vistapages will under go power maintenance on Saturday, February 24th, 2007. Starting at roughly 10AM EST through 4PM EST, customers will experience intermittent service. The total downtime period for any server will be no more than 15 minutes for the entire maintenance period. This is part of our effort to ensure that our customers enjoy fast and reliable service, all the time!
If you have any questions regarding the maintenance, please contact us by submitting a ticket via http://support.vistapages.com/
We thank you for your patience and your understanding.
Sincerely,
Kaumil Patel, President - Vistapages, Inc.
Generated by VistaPages, Inc.
After all the recent tweaking, your blog site now has a serious case of the jumping jerks - from article to article, from page to page, from day to day. And I find it to be much slower going through the site altogether. The keying in process for these remarks is also quite jerky and has a bit of lag time in the middle of sentences/words.
Of course, none of this will prevent me from future readings!!! I do enjoy your site, Don.
Wendy
Hi Wendy. I can’t explain the problems you are seeing. I am not seeing any of the problems you describe here in David.
In any hosted Internet application, there are numerous sources that can be responsible. On my hosting provider’s side it can be changes to their servers which they have done recently. It can be from software version updates that have gone in to their system or to WordPress (my blogging software).
It can be multiple problems between your PC and the route traversed to Canada to the hosting provider’s location. I see that you are a Mobile Phone Internet user and it can be problems with Mobile Phone’s Internet connection.
It can be a new piece of spyware that has found its way into your system or a new problem that has come up with the browser or operating system you have.
I appreciate your loyalty considering the current problems, but until I get a clearer picture of what’s happening, I haven’t a clue of how to improve things.
I guess it could be that the most recent posts have been a drag and are manifesting the situation to force me into doing something more peppy. I will have to give that some thought.
One thing you can do is to install MyVitalAgent and watch the transmission of the blog pages to see if you are being delivered the bandwidth you have contracted for.
Don: Thanks for the reply. The issues seem to have cleared over the weekend. Perhaps your assessment of the MobileNet connection was correct. Their system has had a few hiccups lately and my connectivity has not been all that great. As I type this, I don’t see the lag I was experiencing when I wrote my first note. And my flipping thru the pages is much faster.
I use spyware and adware detectors twice weekly and could see no areas of grave concern there.
If no one else had the problem, then it was on my side (or at least the MobilNet side).
Glad you have recovered