Well, we just had another day of downtime because apparently in a situation where your site has very few viewers, lan gaming > webserver. And in Matthews position, I probably would’ve done the same thing. Yesterday the site went down for a day because Matthew, myself, and Aaron Coleman were playing an internet game of…wait for it… Open Traffic Tycoon Deluxe.

Shady loses 20 man-points.

My next comic requires a little bit more than just stick figures, and as such it might be a while before its up. If its not up by the end of the month however, I promise to put together another one on the 1st of the new year, to tide you over to its completion.

Bonk!

Hi everyone,

Recently (ie, past two weeks) we’ve had a LOT of downtime. For some bizarre reason, my laptop decided in the first week it wanted to turn itself off after 5 hours thanks to incorrect power settings. Upon returning home temporarily in the middle of my holiday, I fixed this. And then the past week we’ve had downtime for an as yet unknown reason. It seems some form of update required an automatic restart, but why that didn’t reboot properly is beyond us.

As for now, I’m able to keep the site up as much as possible because I’m home again. Hopefully this won’t happen again so we can keep the site up for everyone.

- Matthew

I’m sure matthew will make a more complete post about this when he gets back from his holidays, but until then all you need to know is that on sunday, the day after matthew departed for his coastal holiday, his house lost power. Subsequently, we lost the webserver, and he was not around to get it back up and running again, so we had a few days of prolonged downtime. But we’re back up now, and thats what matters. Matthew is now looking into getting a UPS so that this sort of thing doesn’t happen again.

Incidentally, a new comic is up, thanks to my recently applied comic schedule, which is so far enjoying a 100% (1/1) success rate

Happy reading!