CEP, CEP, Where for art thou CEP?

February 13, 2008 General No comments
! This post hasn't been updated in over a year. A lot can change in a year including my opinion and the amount of naughty words I use. There's a good chance that there's something in what's written below that someone will find objectionable. That's fine, if I tried to please everybody all of the time then I'd be a Lib Dem (remember them?) and I'm certainly not one of those. The point is, I'm not the kind of person to try and alter history in case I said something in the past that someone can use against me in the future but just remember that the person I was then isn't the person I am now nor the person I'll be in a year's time.

Regular purveyors of the CEP blog may have noticed that it disappeared on Saturday and still hasn’t come back.  A brief explanation …

On Saturday the company running the data centre that the servers were located in told our hosting company that the power station supplying the building had had a fire which had knocked out a transformer.

On Sunday they told the hosting company that actually it was them that had the fire, that the 2 web servers hosting our site had gone up in smoke.  Oh yes, and also that the off-site backups they were being paid to do daily hadn’t actually been done and everything had been lost in the fire.  Sorry about that.

Obviously this is a bit of a blow.  I have some backups but not enough to restore the blog to its former glory.  I’ve personally lost the West Midlands NO! site and my wife’s card business which was located on the same servers.  Which means I’m going to be busy for the foreseeable future.  The hosting company have been really helpful – they had new servers up and running by Sunday evening and have been in touch pretty much constantly since it happened.

The CEP now has a holding page with a list of branch blogs which will be spreading the word while we work on getting a new CEP site up and running.  If any CEP members are interested in writing a branch blog then let me know and I’ll set it up.

If anyone is interested in contributing to development of the CEP site and has PHP, Joomla and WordPress skills (coding more than using) or Flash/graphics skills then drop me a line and I’m more than happy to keep you busy!

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