(12-04-2023, 02:17 AM)BodhisattvaStyle Wrote: Sunday around 2:30am.est. The site was unreachable again. It came back up around 9ish Sunday night.
Was this the same thing again?
Different thing. This time, the web host was doing a massive host-wide upgrade which was concentrated on the data center where our server physically lives. Ir was supposed to take 6 hours or so, but took the lion's share of an entire day instead. I reckon they must have encountered some kind of problems with the upgrade. I couldn't even log in to the web host account to lodge a complaint or discover what they were saying.
Last time it was a disk space issue. That got mitigated in a couple of ways, but has not yet been solved. The web host cleared some stuff out and freed up a little space, and I went in to the back end and set the backup frequency lower, but there are still a bunch of backups just sitting there in a folder in the root directory that I can't get into to zap and free up THAT space... and those backups are what is clogging up most of the disk space. They're really unnecessary, as the web host regularly creates their own backups off-disk.
I'm a month overdue for doing my annual full-site backup to local, because there is not enough space on the disk to house the full-site backup until I can get it downloaded to local and deleted from the site server.
Damn 'puters! Weren't they supposed to make life easier?
Here is the explanation BIAD found in what was the wee hours of the night for me, but probably coffee time on a Sunday morning for him:
Quote:Scheduled - Maintenance Window:
From 00:01 CST on December 3rd
Duration:
Approximately 6 hours
Nature of Maintenance:
We are implementing essential changes to our infrastructure to enhance the quality
and reliability of our services. This includes a significant upgrade to our colocation
facility in the XXXXXXXXX location.
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