What a frustrating 24 hours at the Crafty Princess Diaries! I guess that’s what I get for doing the public happy dance concerning my August traffic. Yesterday, just as I was about to set up a new post to publish today – BAM! – I got booted out of my wordpress dashboard. The Crafty Princess Diaries was A-WALL!

I can’t even remember how many years I’ve used DirectNIC as my ISP, and for the most part I have been very happy with them. Their office is located in New Orleans, so I thought it might have been power issues there due to Gustav, especially since the company web site said staff had to evacuate. Of course, it also said that they hadn’t had any downtime, and yet? My weblog was down, down, down for hours on end! Even during Katrina these folks had managed to keep it together, so what was the deal?

Eventually, I did get a reply to my user help ticket, and they gave me some kind of explanation about some other user on the my server running something, yada, yada, yada. But any way, whatever the story explanation was or is, I’m alive again! I’m alive!

Edit: I changed story to explanation (though it is repetitive) because I realized it may suggest that I was being told a fictional story, as in not the truth, but I didn’t mean it that way, so thus the change.