I noticed this weekend, when I wanted to upload some photos of the team I took, that the link to the photo gallery was not working.
I dug into it and found out that an upgrade to the hosting site made the gallery stop working. Simply upgrading the gallery software to the newest version should have fixed it. As it goes with most web site stuff, it wasn’t that simple. I tried several times to repair and upgrade it, to no avail. I finally made a new installation on another domain, got it working, and copied the whole thing back to the Warlocks site. Mission accomplished.
During that process, the hosting company decided to shut down their MySQL web interface for maintenance, further delaying the process. Then my internet stopped connecting to any site at the hosting company. I could surf the web anywhere else, but any of my domains refused to work. It finally returned after I did a complete shutdown of my router, DSL modem, and several computers, but I still think it is coincidence and there was a problem within the hosts system, because I could not reach our site using my cell phone data either. I only had intermittent connectivity through a VPN proxy.
But that’s probably more than anyone wants to know. The photo gallery is back and working better than ever now. I’m looking forward to seeing many more photos of our team throughout the season. The photos are an important part of the team history and go back to the very first year of the team. I’m very happy that we have been able to preserve that history.