[update: back up. whew. back to our regularly scheduled programming.]
[update: just talked to our registrar on the phone and they say it’ll probably take an hour or two for the DNS to catch up again, but then everything should be OK. I would highly recommend PairNIC—their support was awesome.]
mc-stan.org is down because I (Bob) forgot to renew the domain. I just renewed it, so at least we won’t lose it. Hopefully everything will start routing again—the content is still there to be served on GitHub.
5-year anniversary
It was registered 5 years ago, roughly concurrently with our first release in August 2012. Time sure flies.
It just lapsed today, but I was able to renew. We’ll get this under better management going forward with the rest of our assets.
Backup web site?
I don’t know if we can run mc-stan.github.io in the meantime—we should be able to, but I don’t know how to configure that or what the switching back and forth times are, so it may not be worth it.
Single points of failure
This is really terrible for us since almost everything we do is now run out of the web site (other than GitHub, so we can keep coding, but our users can’t get anything).
Bob:
I guess the website wasn’t down for long! I just checked and it seemed fine to me.
I think you may be seeing cached comment. Go to a page you haven’t gone to before and see if it’s there. It’s possible the DNS is catching up much faster there than here.
Bob:
No, it all seems to be working. For example, I got to the MathematicaStan page, and I don’t think I’d ever looked at that one before.
Works great for me 8:18am Pacific time aug 16
I can see it too. No problems at all.
Listen, if you want to give us a scare just say that Christmas has been canceled; don’t tell us that mc-stan.org is gone! :-)
Could just post the IP address the DNS routes to, no? Or does the host not allow for that?
You can renew a domain for 10 years. I think the stan community will fund that for you.