The Luminous Landscape suffered a major server crash yesterday (Thursday) afternoon, resulting in the site's longest downtime in 11 years. Michael tells me the situation is under control and they're in the process of reloading the site from a backup. They hope to be back online as early as this morning. So if you've tried to log in and had problems, don't worry—all should be well before long.
Good luck to L-L, and we'll keep you posted of any further developments.
Mike
UPDATE: ...And they're back. After about 24 hours down, L-L is back online, and "It appears that there was no data loss." Good news.
Hmm, and Fred Miranda's site was down for most of yesterday until late on in the day.
tony
Posted by: H. Anthony Semone | Thursday, 02 December 2010 at 08:24 PM
Thanks for passing that on - I've been trying every port I can find with no luck.
Patience, patience.....
Posted by: Mel Mann | Thursday, 02 December 2010 at 10:15 PM
I just tried to load L-L and it didn't load, so I came here to see if today was one of those days when you have a second post and not only do you, it's relevant to the very previous site I tried to visit!
Congratulations on finally achieving a state of effective prognostication. I'm sorry it's over such a lackluster topic as "a random reader's surfing habits."
Posted by: christian | Thursday, 02 December 2010 at 11:21 PM
No wonder. I usually check out LuLa first thing in the morning, couldn't load a thing today. Thanks for the news!
Good luck to Michael and LuLa, hope all will be fine soon.
Zeeman.
Posted by: Zeeman Choo | Thursday, 02 December 2010 at 11:28 PM
"Hmm, and Fred Miranda's site was down for most of yesterday until late on in the day.
tony"
Must be cyber-fallout from Kuwait DSLR-gate. All the photo websites had better get their backups in line!
Posted by: yemado | Friday, 03 December 2010 at 06:40 AM
Pentaxforums was hacked. Not related?
Posted by: Dennis ng | Friday, 03 December 2010 at 08:03 AM
>>cyber-fallout from Kuwait DSLR-gate<<
More likely part of the effort to shut down Wikileaks - after all, it's well known that photographers are subversives.
First they came for our MF backs...
Posted by: Nigel | Friday, 03 December 2010 at 08:17 AM
They really should test their backups.
Posted by: Tom | Friday, 03 December 2010 at 08:18 AM
L-L, Fred Miranda, and WikiLeaks all on the same day. Hmm, indeed.
Posted by: dgray | Friday, 03 December 2010 at 09:30 AM
Folio Link websites are down too.
Posted by: John Custodio | Friday, 03 December 2010 at 12:26 PM