It’s amazing how having your website down for a week and a half, really reduces the amount of referrers you get. By visiting my referrers page prior to the downtime, I was seeing anywhere from 20-30 referrers per day (not visitors or anything, but people coming from links on other sites). Now I’m seeing fewer than 10 a day. Not that I really care, just interesting since most of the referrers are from friends’ websites or from search engines.
Wow, so that was a long downtime, eh? Basically, what happened was my IP changed, and the software that’s supposed to auto update my DNS nameservers didn’t really do it’s job. But in all honestly, that may have been my fault, since it was complaining about not being able to log in with the credentials supplied.
Now that every thing’s back up an running, I’ve got a lot to talk about. Hopefully I’ll have some time to actually do it.
Edit:
Oh yeah, and that may not sound like it should’ve taken over a week to fix, but I’m essentially living up in Chicago now. So when something breaks in Champaign, it takes a bit to get down and fix it.
The rebelpeon.com quote of the day today is:
Whenever there’s a site that makes you wonder whether Jesus died in vain, the odds are it was created by Microsoft’s (Af)FrontPage.
Today’s quote comes from the 14th biggest web design mistakes of 2004 by Vincent Flanders of Web Pages that Suck