Are we back on line?

[rwinking]

Just checking to see if we are back and what might have happened?

[mars_hall]

Yes, we are back and a server was replaced that used an off-shore supported source.

[DavesNotHere]

[DavesNotHere]

And many,many thanks to the HOC technical team!!

[rwinking]

And just in time. I amost bought a Gibson......

[pressure]

Thanks John.

[skydog52]

Thank you to all involved. 
I sometimes imagine the Wizard of Oz is hiding behind the curtain pressing buttons and throwing levers to keep this going. 

[ElNumero]

4 hours ago, rwinking said:

And just in time. I amost bought a Gibson......

Banned!!!!

[LK155]

Good to see the site back up and running.  There are lots of us that missed it.  

Hats off to whomever did the recovery.

[Administrator]

Apologies for the extended outage. The server decided to crap itself. As it's located in NY and I am not, we were at the mercy of the supplier's "onsite support." Which turns out to be "not onsite." Always an adventure, but eventually a new system was spun up and a wonderful time was had restoring backups, fixing service configuration (or services missing completely) issues. There are a few minor, niggling issues to run down. Hopefully, nothing that impacts the community. Be well!

[rwinking]

Thanks so much to whomever pulled off the rescue!

[ElNumero]

On 7/10/2026 at 7:43 AM, mars_hall said:

Yes, we are back and a server was replaced that used an off-shore supported source.

Thanks Mark

[tsp17]

On 7/10/2026 at 8:32 AM, DavesNotHere said:

And many,many thanks to the HOC technical team!!

+1

[Gitfiddler]

Thanks for all of the work done behind the scenes to re-boot the HOC!!!

[mars_hall]

Thank you John...  All credit really goes to you!

[Genericmusic]

 

 

[JeffB]

Nice!

I had to play guitar to fill in time. 

[DetroitBlues]

On 7/13/2026 at 2:55 AM, JeffB said:

Nice!

I had to play guitar to fill in time. 

I hate it when that happens...

[rockabilly69]

On 7/13/2026 at 12:55 AM, JeffB said:

Nice!

I had to play guitar to fill in time. 

the horror

[Administrator]

Apologies, again, folks. Database decided it was having a moment. May have been leftovers from the prior system crash. May have been the phase of the moon. Could have been a high-energy sub-atomic particle randomly traversing the CPU or RAM. Hopefully, we'll be stable a little longer this time. Be well, have a great weekend!

[mars_hall]

We are

[RJLII]

33 minutes ago, Administrator said:

Apologies, again, folks. Database decided it was having a moment. May have been leftovers from the prior system crash. May have been the phase of the moon. Could have been a high-energy sub-atomic particle randomly traversing the CPU or RAM. Hopefully, we'll be stable a little longer this time. Be well, have a great weekend!

The smart money is on a conspiracy by some other guitar forums. It’s a tough town.