[Maryann Corbett]

I'll confess great confusion about the way the server has behaved today. From about 5:15 CDT, when I got up, until roughly an hour ago, I couldn't get on, and got a screen that suggested the entire server was down. It appeared to have been taken down. Yet posts seem to have been made during that time. If the rest of you would tell me what behavior you saw, I'd feel less confused!

Editing back: Alex's latest post on the "Server Update" thread seems to be the answer. Carry on.

[Jayne Osborn]

Hi Maryann,

I made two posts between 4 and 5am your time (five hours or so later, here), but later on I couldn't get onto the site at all; I kept getting this:

Database error The database has encountered a problem.

Please try the following:
Load the page again by clicking the Refresh button in your web browser.
Open the www.ablemuse.com home page, then try to open another page.
Click the Back button to try another link.
The www.ablemuse.com forum technical staff have been notified of the error, though you may contact them if the problem persists.
We apologise for any inconvenience.

None of these things had any effect so I tried to contact the forum technical staff, as suggested, but received an email saying the message was "undeliverable". Then, hey presto! - tried again and it was all working fine.

[Alex Pepple]

Hi Maryann,

I missed this. Your observations are indeed explained in the original 'Server Update' thread, here (post #9).

...Alex