What the Hell Happened?
Those of you reading along at home are probably wondering what the hell happened to Mixed States, Recombinants and Upper Bounds for the past, oh, 36 hours. Well, it seems that the server they are hosted on had a filesystem error and what was supposed to be a couple of hour fix stretched out all night. My host, Site5, decided not to email people who’s domains were down and instead put up a forum thread to display announcements. They finally managed to get it up but screwed up the Ruby on Rails (which the Mixed aggregates run on) royally. They fixed part of the install and it wasn’t until 11 hours after I had given them the solution that they had fixed the last broken part.
They managed to lost all of the files on this subdomain (without informing me) and managed to prevent the aggregates from doing anything at all. I’m sorry for the downtime and I will be doing me best (i.e., writing angry emails or switching hosts) to keep this from happening again. I can’t believe they didn’t even contact us, their customers!