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July 30, 2005

Site Outage

By Karl-Thomas Musselman

Just before midnight I noticed that the database lost connectivity for BOR. It appears that the access setting changed for some reason but has been corrected. There does not appear to be a loss of data.

Though we will finally be reconnecting www.burntoragereport.com as the domain here this weekend, I am slightly irritated with the little quirks that keep popping up, which for the most part have been restricted to us on the back end. With the new Beta Test of Movable Type 3.2 it is to be expected, though long term I am becoming less pleased with our current state of affairs. So I have two questions...

1) Have you had problems being able to comment or otherwise use this site that have appeared recently?

2) Please list any and all systems you know of, as obvious as they may seem, that are out there for blogging. I'm looking for more community oriented tools if possible but may settle for less if MT 3.2 is not up to par. I know many Texas blogs use MovableType and I personally use WordPress for other projects but what else is out there?

Leave a comment or e-mail if you can't (link to the right).

Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at July 30, 2005 12:23 AM | TrackBack

Comments

Dude, WP is the only way to go.

Posted by: matth at July 31, 2005 11:25 AM

I agree with matth. WP is the best. I have had no problems with it on other projects. I can't recommend it enough. Plus -it's FREE.

Posted by: bluebonnet at August 1, 2005 11:27 AM

I have had BOR as a link on my yahoo mypage portal for months... suddenly it shows no activity for BOR but 100 monkeys and a few others are still showing activity.

Posted by: Dallas at August 1, 2005 03:31 PM

That might have had something to do with our temporary move from the BOR domain to hosting it on mine. Maybe an RSS problem, I dunno. Should be back to the old one this week.

Posted by: Karl-T at August 1, 2005 09:12 PM

WP is the best, but if you're going for a more of a community, there's always Drupal/Civicspace.

Posted by: Brock Batsell at August 3, 2005 12:43 AM
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