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Technical issues are still plaguing us

Dear friends,

I am aware that the blog is constantly up and down and up and down.  We are having some major and most annoying headaches with the blog and we are trying to figure out what is causing it.

I understand that this is frustrating and I apologize for that.

However, I am in the same situation as you are: all I can do is sit and wait in utter frustration.  God willing, we will find the cause of this problem, but in the meantime I ask for your patience.

Kind regards,

The Saker

thesaker.is and other Saker community blogs are down

Dear friends,

As you have probably noticed, our blogs are down (at least those which we are hosting in Iceland).  This is most likely a technical glitch, but it could be a DDoS attack.
We are working on it and I hope that this will be fixed soon.
Sorry about that :-(
Also, and just to make things worse, there is a major hurricane coming my way and I might lose power and means of communication, at least for a few days.
I will try to keep you all posted the best I can.
Kind regards,
The Saker

Yesterday’s blog outage

Dear friends,

As many of you have noticed, the blog had an outage yesterday.  Though I am not sure what happened, one of our IT specialists found the location of the problem and fixed it.  I am not sure whether this fix is permanent or temporary (I just woke up to a short email from him, we did not have the time to discuss this yet), but at least from Florida the blog loads fine as of now (0945 local time).

I apologize for that problem and I ask for your patience if over the next couple of days we have more hiccups or delays.  As always, should something serious happen, I would use this old blog (right here) to communicate with you.

Kind regards,

The Saker

MAIN SERVER BACK UP AGAIN

Dear friends,

The main server at thesaker.is is back up. Thanks to the fast intervention of a few specialists of the IT team we also know that this was probably not a DDOS but a combination of problems including that Apache was configured to handle a greater number of connexions that the server can actually handle so it ran near out of memory.  Still, there were some weird connection attempts from certain IPs and this problems is being addressed right now.  I would call that "growing pains" with the emphasis on "growing" which is a good thing.


I am therefore re-freezing this blog here and asking you all to go back to the main one.

Thanks a lot and kind regards,

The Saker

THIS BLOG HAS MOVED TO A NEW LOCATION

Dear friends,

The blog "Vineyard of the Saker" has now moved to a new location:

TheSaker.is: http://thesaker.is/

 (please update your bookmarks!!)

The blog here will not be deleted, but will be "frozen" and kept as on online archive.  This will also be an emergency backup blog in the unlikely event that something bad should happen to the blog at the new location.

To contact me please write to vineyardsaker@gmail.com

The Saker

Blogs of the Saker Community:

French Saker:
http://lesakerfrancophone.fr
Russian Saker: http://thesaker.ru/
Oceania Saker: http://www.vineyardsaker.co.nz/
Latin American Saker:
http://sakerlatam.es
Italian Saker: http://sakeritalia.it/ 
Serbian Saker: http://stepskisoko.com/