For the past week we have had some problems with the website. It kept going up and down. I’m no IT guy, so I was lost. It’s like going to the hospital and telling your doctor that you have this pain in your hip area and he makes you lie down and he presses your hips while looking deep in the eye (hopefully to see if you wince in pain not because he likes the colour of your eyes) and he says you must have strained it while you were jumping a fence or climbing a wall. “Have you climbed a wall lately?” he will ask.
“No, not that I can remember.”
“What about a fence?”
“No, I haven’t climbed any fence lately, doc.”
Then he mumbles, “Because I could have sworn this is a typical case of wall climbing.”
Then he will scribble something in that horrid handwriting of theirs and say if you take that for two days the pain will go. “And no more climbing walls,” he will add as you walk out the door. But three days later you will be back with more pain in your hip area but you will meet another doctor, one with side-burns this time, and he will look at your file keenly and then after a while he will look up at you and ask, “have you been climbing any walls?” And you will exhale slowly and say, no, you haven’t been climbing any goddamn walls. Or fences for that matter.
He will ask you to lie down and then proceed to poke your hips while looking into your eyes and you will start laughing and he will ask, “what’s funny?” and you will say, “oh nothing!” and he will insist and insist because people hate to be left out in a joke and because you don’t want to say you were laughing because of the oddity of the situation (him poking your hips) you will make up something and tell him the joke about the luhya guy and the homeless dog and he will not get the punch-line, in fact he will shake his head and say, “I’m luhya by the way,” while poking you harder.
Anyway, look; what I mean to say is that some chaps struggled for days to figure out what exactly what was wrong with the site because some of you could not access it from their phones while others couldn’t from some browsers on their computers. I was told it started from the last post 3-AM Man which got more traffic than the site could handle so we had to migrate. But it kept going up and down and they kept poking at its hip.
In fact, let me let Kaka (Christian Kakoba) – the chap who fixed it – to explain to you what exactly happened because I never get what he says this guy with all that IT lingo and his accent.
Please read this with a French accent that Kaka speaks in. Batoto Ba Congo, please tell the Gang what happened.
Hallo Bikozulu Clan.
We managed to transfer the website to a more reliable hosting, with both fastest average connection time and no failed requests.
You may have experienced some downtime during the migration process due to the transfer of DNS between the old and new web hosts which causes the domains (bikozulu.co.ke & writing.bikozulu.co.ke) to go dark for between 12 to 72 hours after our request for the change was sent to the registrar. Combined with the need to transfer website files, restore important databases and get every software installations and subdomain configurations in working order.
We are keeping track of the site performance, just to make sure the website has the best uptime record. Sorry about that and thanks for waiting.
I told you he speaks funny.
Look, good news is that we are up and we are sorry for the inconvenience caused. You will notice that during migration we lost numerous comments, especially with the post in question, Kaka is trying retrieve them from where they are floating somewhere in the cyberspace.
We resume our usual chitchat next week Tuesday.
See you then? Thanks for your patience.
Shalom.