Let me begin by apologising to everybody for the site being down for a number of hours today.
The cause was a mistake I made for which I should be royally flogged!
The domain delegation (nameservers) I've used since I built this site were ns1 & ns2.support-hosting.com, which originally belonged to a small web hosting business I ran with a friend (
Harry) for a couple of years until this site started to take off. Because this site has been on the same box we used for that business , there was never really a need to change the nameservers. I've been aware for some time that the old support-hosting.com domain was due to expire soon and I'd planned to switch nameservers just before it did.
Well today the site went down whilst I was at work, and once I started troubleshooting when I got home I realised that it had to be DNS related - but why? - the support-hosting domain didn't expire for another month!
OOPS!
The domain had expired on the 3rd February 2008 (
02/03/2008) - I'd completely missed the difference between US & AUS date formats! - what a STOOPID novice mistake to make!
So rather than renew an old and unused domain, I fixed up the server configuration, created a new set of nameservers with the registrar and waited for the change to propagate - and here we are again.
Again - humble apologies - must be getting old!
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