Back again !, Kudos to OrcsWeb and 4th PowerShell Scriptclub in Zurich
Hi readers,
First of all, sorry for this second longer outage of my blog and the low post rate lately, especialy for the downtime.
Some explaination might be in order for that
About the outage, after the first time when my Dutch registrar went broke, this time the reason was a SQL Database that went over limit some time ago, for some reason or another Community server did eat a lot of space extra at a sudden (more as 200 MB).So something had to have happened that I needed to look at, but it also meant that I went over my free OrcsWeb MVP account limit.
I "hot fixed" that by paying for the extra space (actually a couple of times), till I could look in to it, but as Steve Schofield was so kind at the time to set Community Server up for me after that I had no problems before this moment, I was more or less an end user in this case and next to a time problem, so I did not had a clue where to look was busy and so kept postponing the problem.
Till a lot of things happened at the same time:
- my "Old" Dutch mail address that I kept for a year after moving to Switzerland got disabled.
- I had not changed me contact address
- ...missed the mails from OrcsWeb...
- Was busy
- had a little vacation..
- came back
- I had a lot of people asking me where by blog was.
- Busy.
- had no invoices, so no access to the invoice number...
So I finally did what I had to do in the first place, I called OrcsWeb , I explained the problem and :
- Within 15 Minutes my blog was up
- Sometime later I got an email that they changed my account details
- A mail with updated login for new mail address
- And when I just did look at the Database space, it was under the limit !
So for the second time, they also helped me out getting my blog online again after I lost my Domain registration and now, on an issue that was outside of their responsibility, next to all the other awesome support they have given me over the year, especially Steve at the time he worked at OrcsWeb as mentioned above, but this goes for all the people at OrcsWeb I had contact with.
I do not know yet what the problem was but awesome Service on an otherwise free MVP hosting plan, Hence kudos to OrcsWeb , and blame on me for forgetting this and not shouting for help earlier.
For the low posting rate, I still very busy with PowerShell at my new company WinWorkers , I'm working on some very cool solutions in the System Center area at the moment and of course this contains a lot of PowerShell ;), be sure to hear more about this soon !, and a lot of Exchange scripting in a big migration project.
And I did speak at lot of events in Switzerland as GeekMania , and events with the Swiss IT Pro User Group I joined as the Microsoft evolution Day , and the PowerShell scriptclubs .
The fourth PowerShell ScriptClub in Zurich will already be next week the 1st of June, for more information and to register click here.
Hope to see you there !
Greetings /\/\o\/\/