Uh-Oh! - Apologies
Sorry for the outage and this continuing problem. We are thinking of referring it to the Poetry Complaints Commission, that watchless toothdog being battered by BBC journos at the moment. It is true what they say: SKY's simply the limit.
We are busy establishing whether it is the hacking of hacks, or a surfeit of surfers that caused us to slip from your vision for so long, and continues to redesign the home page. It always, but always, seems to occur when one or both members of our developer team are away.
We obviously need to prepare emergency stocks of poetry for such occasions to avoid too many cases of stanza starvation.
Ok, back to work everyone. There is nothing - er, something - to see here.
Cheers, and thanks for your patience - and for letting us know (I hope you will forgive us not replying to you all)
The Write Out Loud team.
Julian (Admin)
Sun 10th Jul 2011 15:08
Thanks Isobel for the comments.
It might be a timely reminder that we need to bring forward our deliberations on funding issues, though we still don't know for certain that that was the problem. It is sometimes someone trying to hack in that can cause a spike in the bandwidth, though why they might want to hack into our site goodness knows.
Even wiping photos would only be a temporary expedient. If it is an issue of not having enough capacity then doubling the bandwidth (so doubling our payments) to cope with such spikes will be the only real answer in the long term. Or telling everyone to sod off, which would be a bit countercultural methinks.
I do do it for those reasons. But it is not just me involved and spending hours for nowt. We are dead proud of what has been achieved with the site and the way we have responded to its growth needs. There were naysayers when we set it up saying it would die within a year or two (seven years ago).
Well, here we are. If it were to fold tomorrow (it won't!) we would have achieved a lot and added to others' success by encouraign loads of people, via the gig guide, to set up new nights across the country. Cool eh?