I’m sorry if Hubski was inaccessible for you today. For a few, it may still be.
I did something embarrassing.
A few weeks ago, we migrated Hubski from a Linode to Digital Ocean virtual server.
Over the last couple of weeks we have been pulling things out of the linode, and basically winding it down. We finished a few days ago.
This morning at work, as I sleepily sipped my coffee, I decided to finally shut the linode down. “…no wait, I’ll actually close out the account. It will be just one less thing.”
And so I did.
A few minutes later I got an email from thenewgreen: Subject: site down.
“Huh, that’s weird. It’s too early in CA for akkartik to be restarting it.”
I logged in, and Hubski was humming along. That’s when I got the feeling: The last time I had that feeling was when I walked into Physiology class, and while I pulled out my notebook, everyone else started putting their books under their desk.
I typed 198.211.99.23. “There’s Hubski… ...Oh. no.”
The domain was pointed to name servers on Linode.
Yes. Thanks to me, today we all had to wait for the DNS to propagate before we could visit Hubski again. Luckily most didn't have to wait long. However, I fear an unfortunate few are still waiting.
I didn't understand a word of what you did but it sounds bad.
Time Warner still isn't happy with you and won't let me go straight to Hubski. That's a really funny story, though I'm sure you must not have been enjoying it too much at the time.
It wouldn't be entertaining if it wasn't something fixable / if the site was down for a long time. Here's a picture of a baby Corgi to help with that:
P.S. Thanks for actually disclosing these kind of things to the userbase!
Thanks. My cousin has a couple of corgies. They are very sweet dogs. I'm a dog person. We don't have one at the moment, but I imagine that someday when my daughter is older, we will. I've always been partial to labs. I had a great one growing up. But their fur is crazy. It gets everywhere.
3 days! I hadn't realised how much I've been on here lately until it went down...
Actually, we banned your IP, not sure how you made it past that? Glad you're back!