Hey Daffy

A database query managed to pull the whole site over, resulting in the need to close down and restart the database. Unfortunately when it came back up it decided to overwrite its replication logs from the beginning and as such would have destroyed the backup database replication. I’ve taken a snapshot of the database now…

I’ve added the rates in US Dollars to the payment pages. PayPal tell me they will show the /actual/ dollar amounts when you pay – so let me know if you don’t cos my account is a pounds account. 🙂

Just a quick update: We’ve brought online the other two payment methods supported by our authorised sales agent, IBill – This means that you can now pay in one of three ways: Credit Card (Visa/Mastercard) Online Check (US Banks only) 1-900 Phone Number (US Only) The 900 number works by just charging your phone the…

The DearDiary web server setup has some interesting ‘issues’ to do with the authentication system (ie, when you login) that was causing all the other websites on the server to occasionally die too. It wasn’t a huge problem in that reloading the page would usually sort the problem out, however, its not really good to…

It is with regret that I must tell you that the search facility will NOT be coming back. I’ve spent 8 hours trying to get the database to play friendly, and all I’ve succeeded in doing is providing yet another day where the server is as unreliable as shit, dumped some peoples entries into oblivion…

I’m aware that Hamipiks isn’t up yet – it’s still in transit 😉 There’s a HUGE amount of data in Hamipiks that has to be packed up and ferried across… And the various other domains. But anyway, it’s high on the list, it won’t be long now! Steve.