DNS Error

Imagine my surprise this morning when I loaded up Gangstas & Hugs and got one of those typical ‘parking pages‘ for domains that aren’t registered yet or have expired. I frantically start checking all of my account settings with my host provider, and sure enough, I had paid my domain renewal fee. I start emailing the support desk and trying the ‘live chat’ feature from my admin console. Eventually I got someone live and he found out that the hosting machine wasn’t pointing to the right DNS servers. “Great! They’ll fix it soon!” I think to myself. So I get this email about 15 minutes later saying it’s fixed:

Again, I’m thinking the blog is going to be up as soon as the DNS servers are refreshed.

But wait! Not so fast. I keep checking the blog, and I’m still getting the disconcerting placeholder search page. Then I receive this email about 10 minutes later:

Awesome! Now that I’m not the only one, my mind is put at ease! But seriously, how does this just up and happen? From the traffic log, everything was hunky-dory until about 7:15am EST, and then NOTHING… And I mean nothing. Until about 12:38pm EST. I know, not really a big deal in the grand scheme of things. But if a few regular readers saw that domain parking page when they tried to access the website, they’ve probably written the blog off for good.
Thankfully, the website is back to its lovable self, and I can quit freaking out. Not that any of you even noticed the outage… OK, well, I did get one email asking me what was up. I can hang my pride on that. So, until there’s another G&H blog catastrophe, I’ll keep writing the same crap I always have.

UPDATE - 10/26/06, 11:15am: And now I notice that this problem is screwing with my feed. Jesus, when will it stop?

UPDATE - 10/27/06, 1:31pm: It looks like the DNS entries have finally propagated themselves around the internet. But I really loathe this shit. When something like this happens, and I had nothing to do with it, and have no power to do anything about it I get all HULKed out and shit. More than 24 hours with my website down, and I couldn’t do a damn thing. If running my own website didn’t put me in the hole, I’d bitch about it.