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Ever had that happen? It happened to me and a lot of my clients today.

One minute websites were fine, humming along like well-oiled machines. Email coming in and going out in an orderly fashion just like it is supposed to do.

Then the next minute – what do you know – they were down! Oh no! The world is coming to an end!

Well, no, not really. Web servers are just big computers. Sometimes they (like our personal computers) just need a reboot (or a swift kick or whatever method you use)… JK!

Usually our websites are online. Usually. Sometimes the server needs to be rebooted. Sometimes it requires more drastic measures. That is what happened today. We had a huge load issue and the admins. at the server were hard at work on the problem even before they got the phone call from me. Sure enough, after a while (a while than I really wanted but nevertheless) the websites were all back online and email was flowing as it should again.

I just wrote this to say – sometimes web servers and the websites on them will go haywire. Please know that we hate it as much as you do and do everything we possibly can to keep server disruptions to the very minimum that we can.

Please do let us know any time you experience a problem or seem to have an outage. Your website might be the only one affected, but it might not. There may be many that are down on the same server. We do appreciate all of our hosting clients and do our best to give you all the very best of care.

Rhonda