I’ve had a continuous presence on the World Wide Web since 1996, most of that self-hosted from servers in my home. As I said before, I’ve moved twoprops.net and QRazy.fun to the cloud temporarily for this move, but I have many other web sites that I host — some for a long time.

Today was the day I had to turn most of them off. Tomorrow, after seeing my cancer surgeon for follow-up, I’m getting on a plane for the island place. It was the very last minute for getting the servers ready to pack-and-sail. For now, they’ve simply disappeared and people who try to access them or send me mail or call one of my virtual phone numbers or use my secure videoconferencing service will simply get an error.

How did you get here?

You might have been directed here by one of my sites that is currently offline.

If I have connectivity during my flights, or during my layover, I hope to make some changes to redirect web visitors to this very page so they’ll have some idea what’s going on. In any case, I hope to be able to plug in the email server and have it running right away when I arrive. Some Web properties will take longer. Some of the servers are traveling by boat so it will be a month or more before I’ll be able to get those running.

It’s remarkably difficult for me to just accept the reality of this much downtime. I don’t think you can be an effective sysadmin unless you’re devoted to uptime. Please bear with me. I appreciate your willingness to wait; things will be running again as soon as I can make it so. Thank you for your patience.

xkcd cartoon about sysadmins
(xkcd)

—2p

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