Well, after nearly 12 hours of downtime and 10000 people getting in touch with me saying they were bored at work and had nothing to do, I guess I better explain what the hell went on and how it wasnt my fault haha!
UKSO, went offline between 11:30pm last night and until about 45mins ago!
Last night a break, in a major fibre line between Dublin & England failed or got damaged. (UKSO is hosted on a datacentre based in Ireland). While another backup fibre line was down for maintenance. Typical!
So during the night the firm that looks after those underwater lines (Cogent), started preparing a ship called 'Wave Sentinel' to go out with divers to go and repair/fix the fibre line.
View the ship here:
http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/232616000
Our hosting company kept us up to date on progress the entire time and its now fixed! Thank God!
Interesting though, as excuses go, got to admit that's a good one!
Anyways. We will be planning a redundancy now to another server, to stop this happening in the future!
Kind Regards!
Socks