Media Temple are great hosts. Well, most of the time. Yesterday they performed upgrades to almost all of their dedicated servers, including ours, and most went well, without a hitch. Not ours.
Due to a lot of the complexities behind Squares (that seemingly simple ad system), we use PHP 5 amongst other technologies that Media Temple hadn’t remembered about. Upon updating, they managed to mess a few things up related to PHP, and with our site almost entirely built on the technology, we couldn’t do much other than sit around and bark at (mt) to get them to fix it faster.
Eventually, after a good few hours, well, actually almost a whole day, we were back.
Let’s hope the so-called updates aren’t quite so damaging in future!
Thanks for your patience,
GoSquared
