For some reason the gods of Internet sites decided yesterday was our day and our main server started to exhibit a lot of instability early in the morning and finally gave up the ghost right around breakfast. We tried diligently to revive it and by mid-afternoon decided to start from scratch and rebuild things. After much swearing, coffee and other forms of stimulant the site came back online this morning.
The good news is that no data was lost and despite some lost sleep and stress, the TravelGator tech team is alive and well. Things might not be totally back to normal for a few more days as we need to run down some open issues but for the most part we are operational again.
Now to figure out what actually happened!
UPDATE: About three days later we had similar problems crop up so we threw in the towel and replaced our main server. After what seemed like hours of rebuilding (it was) we had things up and running. Again, no information was lost but the site was unavailable for a spell. Then eighteen hours later it happened AGAIN! More hardware issues...so we started from scratch and rebuilt a new server and got it up. Things are better now but we still have some stability issues which we are working on. Hopefully in a day or so we'll back where we should be providing you with the best travel planning option on the Internet.
Top Wreck Dives
April 21, 2008
The Travelin Gator (a.k.a. Chris Vourlias) has written a great article on some amazing wreck dives around the world. Worth a read if you are into blowing bubbles like some of us here at TravelGator.
TravelGator welcomes alpharooms to the site
April 19, 2008
TravelGator welcomes alpharooms to the site. You can now search for cheap airfare on alpharooms via the TravelGator flight search tool and we've also added over 20 thousand hotels across hundreds of cities where you can find great prices from alpharooms.
About.com and traveling to Beijing
April 17, 2008
With the Olympics coming up fast, we continue to look for travel options for those heading to Asia. About.com has published some of our recent discoveries using the TravelGator flight search tool.
The morale of the story - if you plan on going, grab your flights soon as the deals that do exist are going fast.
Lots of options for finding cheap flights
April 14, 2008
The team here at TravelGator has been working overtime to help you find the best deals on flights anywhere - and given the sorry state of air travel these days, we recommend you take every advantage you can get!
Check out our newly updated flight search and specifically two new partners - CheapOAir and AirfarePlanet. Now there really is no excuse for paying too much for airfare.
