A site went down today. Nowadays that doesn’t mean much, because we have so many layers and redundancies half the time we don’t even get a notification. The advantage of treating servers like cattle. But this site was a bit older. Eight years old.

It was one of the first commercial sites I made, let alone one of the first sites I made for 383. It’s barebones and includes a few plugins. There’s no environments. No build processes or tests. It’s still on svn at least, which means breaking out the old tools and mental models. Funny how stuff like that feels so antiquated, when before even touching svn felt like this magical beast.

It went down because the client, who hosts it internally (those were the days) had upgraded their systems and passed the magical mark at which one little bit of functionality went from E_DEPRECATED to E_ERROR.

But that’s still pretty impressive for the web, which let’s not forget is only a few decades old.

Anyway, the fix is simple and it’ll be back online and it’ll last another eight years hopefully.