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The databases used by the PopularWireless.com bulletin board and AIS ship tracker crashed over night. The reason is unclear. I woke up this morning and received a message from Forum Moderator Bill Easterday who said he received a strange error when trying to access the forums. Mysteriously, the BLOG works.

I am investigating. At the moment I have no clue. The database files appear not to be there as I cannot use the Network Solutions tools at their site either. The myPHP interface crashes with

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/services/mysql/phpmyadmin/left.php:92) in /usr/services/mysql/phpmyadmin/libraries/ob.lib.php on line 61

Wish me luck.

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Update 0820 hrs 081707

I called Tech Support. Their center in Pennsylvania took the call. Mike told me that it appeared a large number of customers would be down based on the error he was seeing. The issue did not appear to be specific to PopularWireless.com which was good news. There was no other data from other customers regarding this issue so thanks to Bill we were the first to report it. Mike said to check in one hour intervals to see if the databases have come back to life. In the meantime enjoy the blog. Comment on some posts perhaps.

Mike did a good job setting my expectations so I am actually confident they are working on it.

Update 0900 hrs

still down