BeaumontEnterprise.com is down ... but not out

"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."
Jef Raskin

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Perhaps you've noticed that BeaumontEnterprise.com has crashed. And burned. Spectacularly.

Last weekend, the company that hosts our Web site physically moved their servers from New Jersey to New York City. The move was done over the weekend to reduce the impact on readers, most of whom read BeaumontEnterprise.com during the week.

We were assured that "the main front end Web servers should see no downtime. Web sites will continue to serve and be accessible for your customers and readers."

But the best laid plans don't amount to a bucket of warm spit when computers are involved.

Once they were moved, the computer servers couldn't be rebooted. And the back-up plans failed, too. So starting sometime early Sunday morning, BeaumontEnterprise.com was gushing about as much information as Spindletop ... in 2007.

Right now, for new news, go to BeaumontEnterprise.com and click on the banner at the top of the page. You'll be redirected to a blog (click here to go directly) where we are posting our top headlines. It ain't pretty, but it's news.

Please be assured we're trying to bring BeaumontEnterprise.com back as quickly as possible!

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“A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind”

Joseph Weizenbaum