Apology for blog outage
As you may have noticed, Succulents and More was unavailable from Friday, January 14, until Monday, January 17. I'm truly sorry. This issue came as a complete surprise and was entirely out of my control. Some background: The domain for my blog, succulentsandmore.com, is registered through Blogger (i.e. Google) with Enom , one of the largest domain name registrars in the world. On Friday, Enom performed a scheduled migration to a new data center. It was supposed to last for 12 hours and have no effect on DNS resolution . I assume that's why I didn't receive any advance notice. Unfortunately, things did not go as planned. The outage, which was supposed to last for 12 hours, continued for 75 hours, and it made as many as two millions websites unreachable. This was not supposed to happen in the first place, but apparently even large technology companies with hundreds of engineers are capable of FUBARing things—on a massive scale, too! Again, I apologize if you tried to visi...