I am going to continue bumping up this post for the next several days to make sure as many of you read it as possible:
Most of you will remember this summer’s famous outage where some of you were unable to access my blog for over a week due to a server address change that took its sweet time getting around the world. Well, I hate to tell you, but it’s about to happen again.
Our 5-year contract on the T1 circuit to our house (to support our web business) ends in late January and just in time, they have run fiber optic service (FIOS) to our development. They ran the fiber over the summer and have been wiring the utility poles and making the connections for months. Finally, the service is available. Terry was checking on a regular basis for the service to become available for sign-up and as soon as they opened the service to our address, he signed us up. They came this weekend to dig the trench and lay the conduit run up to our house for the fiber. I’m not sure if they actually pulled the fiber through the conduit or not, but once that is done, all that remains is for a technician to come out, hook it into the box at the outside of the house and run the necessary wiring into the basement.
All of that tech junk was probably Greek to many of you, but the bottom line is that sometime this week, our entire range of IP addresses are going to change. And this means that our server addresses are going to change again. Which means that, once again, many of you will be unable to get to my blog for anywhere from two days to a month (depending on your internet service provider). Rest assured that I will still be here and still be posting. You’ll just have to keep trying every day or so until you can get to me again.
I’m sorry for the inconvenience, but this switch is going to cut our monthly internet bill roughly in half (and if you knew how much we were paying for the T1, you would probably choke), so there was never a question as to whether or not we would make the change. I just hope that I won’t lose any readers. Please stick with me! 😀
Always stick to you….I hope I be able to access your blog and not like last time….the sheer agony of wondering and waiting. Hugs and have a great Monday.
Thanks for the heads up! I’ll still be here whenever all of the connections and updates and such are finally completed. And I totally understand about the money issue.
Oh, no! I’ll miss you so much, Jenna 🙁 Fingers crossed my Internet provider won’t be sulking like it did last time.
Anyway, if that does happen, and it this doesn’t involve too much work on your part… you could always email me your post! 😀
Progress has its price, I just hope it won’t affect to me! 😛
Jenna, according to DH, you can set your DNS config so that domain lookups occur more frequently following the change. Hmmm… think I got that right. Probably not! Failing that, maybe I’ll email you to bug you for your new IP address, so I can still find you!
Hi Jenna! Thanks for the heads up…as long as we have email…I’m fine. 🙂 Plus, maybe we can write each other snail mail..LOL Remember that??? Just wanted to say thank you also for the beautiful comment you left on my blog. You truly are a good friend that I love dearly!!! You have no idea how much I needed to hear those words and how much they meant to me. Thank you!!!
*BIG HUGS*
X Stitch X
**Insert bad Capt. Kirk voice here** No…. Jenna… don’t…. leave us… wanting…..
Don’t worry, my friend, I will be here when you return!
Uh oh. I have no idea what half of that means, but I hope I can read and post to your blog. Plus you have my email…….