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[UPDATED] Website Issues

[UPDATE] We’re back in business, no thanks to our hosting provider’s technical support. Moving on.

Our website went down a little after Noon last Saturday for an unknown reason. Our hosting provider offered little help, much to my chagrin. I was able to finally bring it back up this morning after tweaking some essential files on the site. I still don’ t know what happened in the first place to take the site down. I initially considered the possibility that our site had been hacked but I have dismissed that possibility.

While the site is back up, it’s exceedingly slow with abysmal data transfer rates. I’m about to get back on the horn with Support to try and address this issue. In the meantime, until we’re in operating normally again, please be patient. You’re likely to get a 504 Gateway Timeout or simply a “This site took too long to respond” error. Just give it a moment and try again.

Live! From Clary Lake!

Image taken using Live View of ClaryCam-3

How many of you ever click on the “Live Stream in your browser” link on the Webcams page? I know the webcams themselves are very popular (22 people have looked at Clarycam-1 today alone), but I have no metrics on use of the live-view offered. My old visitor stats plugin used to show exterior links that people clicked on, but the plugin I’m currently using only shows local pages. I’m just curious! I could go grep through the weblogs to find that information, but that’s pretty tedious.

I check all three live feeds every day just to make sure they’re working OK. The level of service we’re using is free, but I have to periodically reactivate the cameras every once in a while. I’m just curious how many of our visitors check them out. Leave a comment!