Hostage Crisis Ends
We've been held hostage the past 26 days and were just released at 2100 hours and still feel slightly knockered and jetlagged. Upon release I also received my re-entry Visa from the good ol' Heimat Sicherheit after 10 months. No really, our server nearly fried and now we're back and have a bunch to catch up on in the transcontinental zeitgeist.

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I am glad to see you are back up again. I started to worry.
There are tons of blog services, but it seems that there is not any well-known emergency blog service, where bloggers could continue to blog or leave a message to their loyal readers, when their server is down or do I just don't know about it.
Hm, is this a business idea? Shall I buy the domain "http://www.whathappened.to/"? When Anglofritz got trouble, then you post a message at http://www.whathappened.to/anglofritz and I can read your note. ...
Joerg; April 30, 2008 10:58 PM
Thanks for the ideas. We're running on a dedicated server with a "6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Thu Mar 16 14:43:06 CET 2006." So it needs an update. This is the second time we've encountered this in the past year. The server didn't start the services automatically. Essentially we need to move to a webspace that takes care of these updates since I am not a sys admin ;) And then we'll need to undergo a server move.
Gerd; May 1, 2008 12:49 AM