Month: April 2010

So the cart is still down 🙁

I just loaded a new webpage, and tried the new host name for my cart (that was supposed to fix the problem) on that webpage and it is still not working. So then I tried the old host name (since I noticed the old host name was working for a few hours yesterday, but I am sad 🙁 because it is not working again). I am anxious to get my new revamped site and the products up, so I am going to go ahead and get my new revamped site up now. Once it is up, customers may email me their orders (please just send me a list of the products you wish to order, and also your real name and address) and I will invoice through paypal for payment. I am very sorry for any inconvenience this has caused!

If my cart company does not fix this problem within a couple more days I will look for a new shopping cart. (Though they were updating us every few hours on their forum at first, there hasn’t been any new updates in a while, so I am kind of frustrated right now. It is not just my cart that is down but thousands of people’s carts are down 🙁 ).

Thank you for understanding! I am going to upload the new revamped site now, and after it’s up I will post another blog entry about the new special and also the new sizes and products.

Hi everyone

Now that they’ve posted more information on their forum, I will probably be switching my cart links to the other host name (I had thought if I switched, then after it got fixed, then the new links wouldn’t work after the original got fix; this isn’t the case, it will still work fine afterwards). So I will be updating the site with new cart links, so the revamped site will go up sometime today, most likely tonight when I have a few hours (I will be loading each page one at a time to check not only the cart links but also will be editing all my new webpages and also product links etc. I’ve revamped my site a bit so lots to check).

After I update the site, I will be posting here again; after the revamped site is up later today, please be sure to refresh/reload your browsers (to make sure the most current version of the site is popping up).

I just wish my cart company would have emailed everyone or posted on their main page; if I hadn’t tried to access my account last night I would not have known (this has apparently affected thousands? of sites–or however many sites are on that one particular server; only one of their servers has an issue, the rest are fine). They posted on their forum that they could not email 20,000 users since their mail server would have been blocked for spamming, but they could have at least posted about it on their main page, instead of just their forum, since there are a lot of people that don’t know.
If you notice another company’s cart not working, please email the company because they may not even know it is not working.

Thank you so much for your patience and understanding! 🙂

As noted in my previous entry, if you’d like to order now, please email me orders until my revamped site is up. Thanks.

Hi everyone

The server for my shopping cart is down 🙁 (so my cart is not taking orders right now. I noticed it was down a few hours ago when I was trying to access my cart’s account. I just thought it was my internet connection at first or for some reason was taking too long to load (so was timing out), but it is still not working and I just checked my cart company’s forum and saw that others also are having problems). According to my cart’s company they are trying to fix the problem but it may be a while before it is back up. They didn’t specify how long ‘a while’ is so it may be back up in a few hours, it may take a couple days. Update: They have switched to a different host name for the cart so I can now view my account, and are still working on fixing the original host name. If they can not get the original host name for my cart back up, I will have to redo the links to my cart for my whole site using the new host name 🙁

If you’d like to place an order now you may email me your order (please include the email address that is connected to your paypal account) and I will invoice you through paypal.

If you have placed an order last night or today (so friday or saturday) please contact me, in case it did not go through (since I may or may not have gotten it).

I apologize for any inconvenience this has caused, they are fixing the problem as fast as they can. Thank you for understanding.

I was going to get my new revamped site up a few hours ago but can’t do that until the cart is fixed 🙁

Just wanted to mention that I am going to have a special once I get my new site up, and was going to give everyone that ordered this week the special too 🙂 I decided a few days ago to do this special because I wanted to thank all of my customers for their patience in waiting for the new sizes, new products, and revamped website. I’d only mentioned the special to one customer so far (yesterday morning) but just wanted to mention it here on my blog too so everyone else knows too. I will reveal what the special is once my new site goes up, but that won’t be until the cart problem is fixed.