mandarine

update: it seems the server is now working OK. The conclusions are not changed.

Our humblest apologies for the break in transmission.

Mandarine’s server is down

Since June 13th, the hosting sever at free.fr is down: the server itself or the mySql database are OK, but apparently the PHP engine cannot process requests (just quoting the forum — no clue what it is all about). It should be easy to fix. The problem is: this is a free hosting service, and there is only one person behind the scenes to plug all leaks and keep the ship afloat. In the forum, we are told that this guy is ‘on leave’. He could be on vacation, but I suspect he’s having a breakdown, what with the workload and the pressure from unfortunate page owners who are not always nice on the forum (understatement).

I have long said I’d be moving to bluer skies and better hosting but have kept procrastinating because I quickly forgive. This is probably the tenth time this year that I am turning the other cheek. I have had enough.

Mandarine is going to move

I will take the necessary steps to move mandarine’s blog to www.mandarinelechat.org right now. These include: open a webpage account either at my other access provider (mandarinelechat.neuf.fr) or as a subdirectory in my absidea.free.fr site (which has been spared so far). Then I will redirect my domain www.mandarinelechat.org to either destination when the blog is succesfully moved. This may take a couple of weeks.

Meanwhile, you can already edit your links and blogroll and change mandarinelechat.free.fr/weblog to www.mandarinelechat.org.

Mandarine is still alive

I will keep reading and commenting on your blogs. If you need interactivity, you can use my email, or the ‘alas’ page on absidea.

Please don’t go nowhere.

Best regards,

Mandarine

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