From TheLongestTrip.com
Why the Rethink?
I woke up Saturday, the first full day of my vacation, to a surprise. My website (stephenbailey.com) had gone kerflooey. Some things were not where they should be, other things were gone altogether. I panicked. Checking my traffic, I saw that there was a 1000% increase in traffic in less than 24 hours.
I was thrilled … and horrified. This surge took down my site.
I spent the rest of my Saturday with my host trying to figure out a solution. It was decided that I needed to move my site to a new, more stable server. Something that could not be automated. So began the tedious task of backing up all of my site files and uploading them to the new server. This took several days.
By Tuesday morning, most of the hardest work was done. I still had a few things to take care of to assure my site would (eventually) be up and running.
On Wednesday morning, I was in a panic once again.
I had all this time coming to me and I could’ve been (should’ve been) traveling. This week was to be the first half of my thirteen days of vacation. During this time, I was supposed to be embarking on a series of New York adventures. But with losing half of the time to my technical woes, I had not planned a single trip.
Read More at TheLongestTrip.com: Vacation Rethink
