Route 66 News is back after a nearly five-day outage.
In short, I encountered grave and unexpected troubles last week with the site’s hosting service and decided to move to a new host. The website went back up partially — mostly on mobile — on Saturday, and returned to its full power about noon Sunday.
Route 66 News moved to Dreamhost, which offered better servers and more technical support for WordPress, the digital platform this site uses. With a database of more than 7,000 stories and many more thousands of comments in nine years, the website was getting too big and complicated for me to handle alone.
There may be some tinkering of the site in the next few days to make it perform better. But, at the least, we’re back and probably better than ever.
Oh, good. I hate it when you are not there.
Thank you, Ron, for persisting through the inevitable chaos that is the Internet. Best, Leigh Henson
That’s great news Ron,… the place just isn’t the sane without the “News”.
Cheers
Mike Clarke
well, glad that rough bumpy ride is over
Glad you’re back. FYI: The Autry has added a final program for Dec. 6 on how to plan a drive on Route 66 featuring Jim Ross and Jerry McClanahan.
Ron, glad you’re back. Thank you for the excellent work you do keeping us posted on news all up and down the Route.
Glad you’re back!