The Dark Day of September 5, 2013, and our brand new server
We’re still recovering from our epic outage, which lasted from about 8pm PST September 4th until 4am PST September 6th. By several magnitudes, this was the longest downtime we’ve had in our 7 years of publishing. That shit was brutal. After troubleshooting on the old server for 20 hours, we decided to abandon ship and move to a brand new server. So far, it’s sparkly and doing well.
I’ve been using the Offbeat Empire’s Facebook page to keep everyone updated, but now that offbeatempire.com is back online (on an entirely new server, built from scratch) I’ll update this post with updates as we have them.
We’re already making changes to the sites based on reader survey feedback
The 2012 Offbeat Empire reader survey has only been up for a couple days, and we’re already making changes to the sites based on y’all’s feedback…
Offbeat Mama is becoming Offbeat Families
This weekend we’re flipping the switch: Offbeat Mama will become Offbeat Families. The title of the site will change, the URL will be switch to offbeatfamilies.com (although all the old offbeatmama.com links will still work), and one of the header characters has undergone a transition from “blonde soccer mom” to “blonde soccer butch/transdad/pretty SAHD/fey uncle/gender-queer auntie/whatever ze wants to be.”
This re-brand has been under consideration for a long-ass time, and we’re super excited about what it means for the site…