After going dark for a full two days (from the crack of dawn on Sunday, May 3rd, to the early-morning wee hours of Tuesday, May 5th), HE has finally returned to the land of the living and the read.
Since launching in August 2004 HE has endured occasional technical glitches and been out of service for…oh, two or three hours from time to time. But never in my 22 years of online column-filing — 28 years if you count my Mr. Showbiz, Reel.com “Showbiz Confidential” and Movie Poop Shoot chapters — had the column been down for a full day, much less two….Jesus. It felt eerie, strange. I was alone, adrift…voiceless.
But I was never at fault! Starting on or about 4.29.26 malicious attackers (i.e., scurvy criminal sociopaths) began exploiting a CPANEL bug, and massive corruption became evident within hundreds of web servers. CPANEL integration is everywhere….worldwide. Serious as a heart attack.
For two days I whined and begged and pleaded for help from the Liquid Web / Nexcess guys, who were overwhelmed given the huge scale of the corruption. While I managed to speak to two intelligent and lucid fellows (one based in Amsterdam, the other in Uzbekistan), I didn’t find my deliverer — a brilliant Amsterdam-based techie named Sharon K.– until yesterday afternoon. Sharon began a “rooted restoration” of HE and worked all through the New York night. The nightmare finally came to an end around….oh, 2 or 3 in the morning.
