After quite a battle, I was able to get the site restored. Basically, I had to set up a whole new cloud server. All is well now and I’ll be performing some updates again soon. Sorry it was down. Definitely wasn’t expected.
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this great to hear I was thinking that it may have gone down for good. Thanks for doing that.
Well I’ll be! I was just about to give up when it went live again. Yay!
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Great news, Brian. You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. I was getting a little twitchy without the IRD banter.
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Crikey, that had seemed a sad ending… but…
Yippee!!! Lovely to read y’all…
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Great news!
I want to act like I’m too cool to be fazed by the loss of this site but if I’m being honest I was more bothered by it than I want to admit. 
It almost felt like losing a close friend.
Luckily I was able to connect with Stan through email and he told me that Bryan was working on getting the site back up and running. The pessimist in me was preparing myself to accept that the site might be gone permanently. Good to see the gang is back !
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Thanks for the update Bryan.
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Well I guess my therapist needed a little extra money anyway. whew…
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I was pooping myself!!!
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TMI!! 
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Yaaaaaaaaay!
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I pooped every day since the site went down, but not once did I poop in my pants!..….As far as I recall……
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I was concerned I’d lost everyone here! I just signed up at Drooble, which I just learned about, and is another musician social site. This made me realize how precarious having only one online home is.
My plan was to eventually find as many members from IRD that I could and maybe get everyone together again on a new site. I’m not the type that would be good or even able to organize or form a new group but I was hoping someone else here would do it if IRD didn’t get back up and running.
I was able to contact Stan and he gave me Paul’s @feaker email. I also googled @ColdRoomStudio (Andrew) and I saw he had some places online where I would likely be able to contact him. I remembered that @Chordwainer Dave had a YouTube channel and figured I’d probably be able to track him down too. Those were the only members that I figured I would likely be able to contact after a little bit of sleuthing. I was just about to email @feaker , but when Stan told me that Bryan was working on getting the site back online I figured I’d wait a bit before I did that. I’m glad to see most of us are back on IRD again!
I got your email now, Paul. If this site goes down I won’t lose touch with you. After the site went down last week, I’m wondering if there should be some kind of backup plan for the members here. Maybe a Facebook group just to stay connected?
Speaking of “features”. There’s one feature on this site that I doesn’t seem to be working. You know the little microphone 
icon when you reply to a post? You can click that and leave a quick “live” recording, but it doesn’t seem to work for me no matter what I do. If that feature worked it could be very handy for collaborations or just giving examples of musical ideas that you want to get across to other members of the site.
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WTF?? Thanks for reaching out to me in that group you dicklick! So did Andrew appear in your google search and I didn’t? haha… just kidding.
On a more serious note, it’s good to see that others were still connecting. I emailed Boz, Bryan, and almost reached out to Dave. But since Bryan was responding, I figured i’d give him time, because I’m thoroughly aware that glitches like this can take days to straighten out. I’m wondering if the IRD site goes down, if there’s a facebook group page that might serve as a fallback, though I’m not sure how many people on here use facebook. Just an idea.
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I thought about you, Emma, Dan, Boz and a few others too, but I figured if I googled “Jonathon” that it wouldn’t get me very far. 
Yes, I think that would be a good backup plan. 