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 visit Succulents and More over the weekend and weren't able to. There's nothing I can do personally to ensure this doesn't happen again, but I hope that Google will switch from Enom to a different domain name registrar. This level of technological incompetence is completely unacceptable.

In the meantime, be sure to read my latest post, “People-friendly agaves,” if you haven't. It's a good one!