This is Bruce Hershenson. Thursday night, several hours after the 6/12 color still auctions closed, our website's computer server failed from approximately 12 midnight CST on 6/13 until approximately 5 PM CST on 6/13 (some portions of the site were restored prior to that time). None of the bidding in the auction was affected at all, as the outage began well after the last auction ended (and after we sent notification e-mails to all the buyers).
You may recall that one week ago, the hard drive on our server failed, and that caused an outage of approximately 12 hours. At that time, our host replaced the hard drive, but obviously they did not check over the entire system, for just one week later, the entire computer server failed. The host has now replaced the computer server, and much of our site is now functional, but there are a few problems that are yet to be corrected (but none relating to our auctions). Because of the weekend, we will leave the website as it is until Monday morning, when we will finish fixing the few portions of our site that still need to be restored to full functioning status. The website outage last night caused one additional problem. All e-mails sent to us after midnight on the 13th and before noon on the 13th (the times of the outage) almost certainly did not reach us, and need to be re-sent to us (if you have any doubts about whether we received an e-mail from you sent during that time, it is better to be safe and re-send it). Because this outage primarily occurred in the middle of the night in the United States, it is unlikely that very many e-mails were lost, but if you think you sent an e-mail during that time, you should certainly re-send it. We very much apologize for this inconvenience, and will do whatever is necessary to correct any problems that occurred during this downtime. We appreciate your understanding of this problem, and know that it is something that all websites encounter from time to time! Certainly, we will immediately look to find a more reliable host, but we have been asking for years now, and it seems that all hosts have similar problems. If you have the slightest problem of any kind, please either e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], or call us at 417-256-9616 during regular business hours (Monday through Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM Central Time except from 12 to 1 when we take lunch). *WE HAVE NOW RESTORED THE VAST MAJORITY OF OUR WEBSITE, AND BOTH OUR TUESDAY AND THURSDAY AUCTIONS ARE COMPLETELY RESTORED!* You can go to our Tuesday Gallery at http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/13.html and our Thursday Gallery at http://www.emovieposter.com/agallery/14.html, and if you have not been there yet, you should really go *NOW*, because we have a lot of excellent three-sheets, six-sheets, British quads, and Argentinean posters in our Tuesday auction and a lot of great single stills (including many *GREAT *Marlene Dietrich and candid stills) in our Thursday auction, so if you collect any of the above sizes, you won't want to miss these auctions! We very much apologize for any inconvenience our website outage caused. Bruce Hershenson and the eMoviePoster.com team P.O. Box 874 West Plains, MO 65775 http://www.emovieposter.com our auctions on our own site: http://auctions.emovieposter.com Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
