If you visited Focus Organic any time last night or this morning, you may have noticed that our account was SUSPENDED. Don't worry! We didn't do anything wrong. Apparently, the site overloaded our server's system resources, and they shut us down. Unfortunately, we received no warning for a chance to backup our files, etc. Luckily, I was able to contact support and explain that I had no idea why this happened and no way could I afford the $149 a month they wanted me to spend to rent a server solely for Focus Organic's use. They unsuspended the site and said they've fixed the database that caused the problem. I'm not sure why this wasn't done last night, if there was a way to fix it easily, but I'm just hoping this problem doesn't happen again.
So, that's what happened. If anyone ever notices a problem here and can't get to the contact form, please feel free to email me at my personal email address (in standard email format, of course): braiiins at sbcglobal dot net, or contact me on AIM at username braiiinss (I'm often on invisible, so just send a message if you want to IM me, and I'll get it if I'm on, or the next time I get on)
Here's to hoping everything runs smoothly from now on!
13 Responses
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RecycleCindy
April 4th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Good to see all is well with you and the server tonight. These things are confusing but glad you are back up and running smoothly.
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Grog
April 4th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Running well over here
3
web design
April 5th, 2009 at 2:12 am
No site issue! Working fine! Thanks!
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rc jet engine
April 5th, 2009 at 7:20 am
its working fine here, nice design.
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Laurie
April 5th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
So glad we caught you after it came back up! Great site you have, thanks!
Laurie
http://ecoki.com
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wilson
April 6th, 2009 at 1:34 am
I'm glad that you've able to take over your blog back, Stefanie. I bet this small incident might have caused you a little worrisome here, but it's fined now!
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Joe
April 6th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
It happens to the best of us! We are all at the mercy of angry servers
Good to have you back!
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Kelly Pro
April 7th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Working fine now. Maybe you had unexpected flow of visitors to your blog. That is common, as Wordpress is very demanding in terms of server resources.
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pays to live green
April 7th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
That's good you worked out all the issues with your hosting company. I really hate the fact that they try to get your to buy a dedicated server just because you are using a lot of bandwidth. Your site has definitely been growing and as it grows more, it may be an option to consider to increase speed and reduce the chance of crashes.
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Stefanie
April 7th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Thanks, everyone! So far, so good... but I can't help but be worried about it happening again!
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George Packard
April 9th, 2009 at 1:15 am
It happens to my sites on occasion, nothing really to worry about.
Glad to see you back up again...
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Property Sale
April 9th, 2009 at 1:56 am
That's not very good. I would suggest that you change your web hosting site as this might affect your whole blog.You never know when will they suspend you again.
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Stefanie
April 10th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
George, I think if it happens again, they might permanently shut me down!
Property Sale, I considered that, but other than this problem, the hosting has been great, and the customer service reps are very nice and respond very quickly. That, and I paid for a year of hosting up front