* Planned Website Outage *

Friday, July 9, 2010, some time after 12 noon, our IP address will change. As a result, you will not be able to access the website until your internet service provider (ISP) updates their records. This can take from 30 minutes to as many as 3 days, but for most people should only be a few hours.

What do you need to do? Nothing. The alphabetical address (URL) you type into your web browser is not changing, it is the numeric address the internet uses to find us (like a street address).

It sometimes helps to restart your computer. Computers will remember our numeric address and sometimes will not recognize our new address until you restart your computer. Most people will not need to do this but if it has been more than 4 hours since you could access the website, it may be worth a try.

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Website Back Online

As you can see, the website is back up. I apologize for the website being down for so long and for any inconvenience it may have caused.

So what happened? Let me explain.

The video card in the server failed who knows when (hours, days, weeks, months) but sometime between 2:00-3:00AM Friday when backup was running, the added load on the system caused enough of a power fluctuation to cause components of the video card to essentially explode, causing a short circuit that ultimately fried the whole server.

These things never happen on a Monday and only happen immediately before a long holiday weekend. The server being down for a week was unacceptable since a lot more important stuff is on the server than just this website. A new server had to be back online this weekend.

We had to overnight, with Saturday delivery (do you have any idea how expensive that is for something the size and weight of a server?!?!?!) our new HP Proliant server and it has taken better part of a day to setup the new server and transfer the data.

The good news is, this is a state of the art, enterprise class server that is light years ahead of what we were running before and should serve us well for the next many years.

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Join us for our first Hollywood Bikenight Holiday Dinner!

Everyone is welcome. Food and beverage specials all night. Just mention Hollywood Bikenight.

Date: Friday, December 18, 2009
Time: 7:30pm
Place: Cabo Cantina, 1240 3rd St Prom, Santa Monica, CA 90401

Click to view the official event thread

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