to be back.  *tip toes in and looks around – glances over old posts that read like well worn furniture – breathes a sigh of relief *  Whew!  We’re back up.  Imagine my surprise when I tried to find PokerWorks two days ago after I returned from my trip into Las Vegas.  It was nowhere.  Horrible, sad, frustrating news.  I pinged everyone that I knew of that might have some form of control over the server, but to no avail, it was the middle of their night.

One of those brave young souls had given me his phone # the last time the server went down and told me to call him if the same thing happened.  So I did.  Of course I woke him up, he was good natured about it and contacted someone in admin that had server control.

This is what it came down to, we had an old page that had an American Express emblem – I believe it was from 2007, and the hosting site (a US company) simply shut us down instead of allowing us to remove it or begin the process of moving to another hosting service.  Gee thanks guys, that’s democracy for ya.

After emails flying back and forth, and probably a lot of expletives, the programming crew began the process of moving the website to a server in Europe – the database is so large that it takes 12 hours to move the site and then it crashed somewhere in the move the first time around so they started over.

So glad to be back, home never looked so good.  More later.