A Great 2011 and Beyond for All!

We all wish a great 2011 and beyond for everyone! May your year meet with success at the center of your wheel of existence, may all the good seeds brewing in the terrain grow into beautiful saplings and trees, and may the turn of the year provide a moment of new beginnings and new shared discoveries in life for all of us.

Night turns to day, day turns to night, flowers bloom and wither, seasons change,
crops are sown and reaped — life moves on in its endless cycle, and the wheel turns once again.

Everything comes in its season, and for good reason. The most we make out of the season we live in, the greater our peace of mind. If we scorch in the summer and wish for the winter, or freeze in the winter while longing for the summer, we will miss the lessons of the season, our minds absent from the present moment that exhorts us to listen to its many lessons.

Gaudiya Repercussions Status

Edit 2009/04/10: The site is now back online.

I've been contacted concerning the ongoing downtime at Gaudiya Repercussions. The issue appears to be with the services of the hosting provider itself, beyond anything I (as consultant admin) can do until a company response is received.

Currently all HTTP and FTP access is offline. That notwithstanding, we now have a current site MySQL backup secured. Whatever happened and happens to the site with what seems like the hosting disaster we had been half fearing and half expecting, no texts will be lost. This might also be a major network issue, but most likely the server's gone totally defunct.

Watch this space and the comments feed for more information as the issue resolves.

Edit 2009/04/09: There seems to also be a software vulnerability in InvisionBoard that allows registered users to abuse the forum system by flooding it with spam comments. A certain comments table we have was filled up with tens of thousands of entries (76,963 to be precise) in 125.1 megabytes... (Turns out this was an unrelated older issue that had gone unnoticed. The database garbage has now been removed as well.)

Edit 2009/04/10: The site is now back online. Turns out the issue was caused by vandalism, as reported here. While any proper hosting datacenter does have redundant connectivity over several independent pipes, in this case a grand total of ten bundles with hundreds of fiber-optic cables were cut down at four separate protected locations, taking down telecom and internet access from some 50,000 subscribers, affecting our server as well.