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Post by MTD on Mar 30, 2004 21:30:30 GMT -6
Of all weeks for this to happen!The official Web site of the Division, www.gulfcoastfencing.com, is down. The Division contracted with an internet design company, which in turn contracted with a Web hosting company to provide the actual hosting. It appears there no longer exists a business relationship between the internet design company and the Web hosting company. The Division is not the only victim of this. The internet design company itself lost its Web site, as also did one of the clubs in the Division.For the interim, go to www.flash.net/~mdelevor/gulfcoastfencing.htm for more details, and access to the most popular information from the official Web site.
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Post by schlager7 on Mar 30, 2004 22:49:49 GMT -6
Of course, the rogue site is still up and running.
;D
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Post by MTD on Mar 30, 2004 23:29:26 GMT -6
...and, speaking as the de facto webmaster of the official site, I endorse the rogue site as the best single place to go for information about the fencing scene in the Division. The official one is only that -- the official place for information. And, this one week really isn't the week to be losing the official place.
As explained at the interim emergency backup for the official Web site, please request anything you can't seem to get any more when you look for it.
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Post by Tight in Knots on Mar 30, 2004 23:38:41 GMT -6
Matt, the way you write about foil tips and bylaws keeps me in knots, but the way you took care of this problems is smooth man. Bravo! You are an angel (no talking about sex this time) Tight in Knots
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Post by MTD on Mar 31, 2004 12:52:53 GMT -6
Good news.
The official Gulf Coast Division Web site has returned to life. So has the Web site of the company in between the Internet designer and the company which actually has the hardware. So has the Web site of the club which also lost its Web site.
Thank you for your patience.
For fellow techno-dweebs, the resurrected Web site has exactly the same IP address it used to have. I had contacted the apparent owner of that IP address and got them to confirm to me that 1) the address is indeed theirs, 2) none of their machines were down which should have been up, and 3) they do not show a business relationship with the next outfit closer to us. I cannot explain what happened. Unless, for example, the middleman failed to pay a bill, the end supplier shut down the service and wiped the record of a previous business relationship, and then recreated the business relationship when the middleman tried to straighten it out. However, the middleman made a brief report of what happened which merely said "we have experienced zero access to the server for approximately 44 hours" and begged off of explaining more fully for the moment.
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