Meta: Maintenance 0

I logged into my VPS tonight, as I do several times a week, to do routine maintenance. (Indeed, the last time I had to call my hosting provider’s most excellent tech support, the support tech was mildly surprised to find that my server was quite up-to-date. Having briefly worked in hosting provider tech support, I am not surprised that he was mildly surprised.)

I ran a virus scan (it came up clean as usual), then I ran an software update. The update updated the SQL database engine.

As I commonly do after an update, I went back to the backend of the blog and clicked on a random link as a test and got the dreaded “Error connecting to database” error. But, a moment later, everything was working again. I’m guessing that the database engine update hadn’t quite fully taken effect, but that’s just a guess. Anyway, just for grins and giggles, I restarted the server.

Everything seems to be working okay now.

Aside:

I’ve been using the same hosting provider for over a decade, ever since I stopped self-hosting. I went with it because someone I found trustworthy recommended it. I haven’t looked elsewhere because of the quality of its support techs. Fortunately, I don’t need them often, but they have never let me down.

Its support techs set the example.