Down for an hour or so

Ok, after all the pain of the last week you’d think I’d be over it… I am. But I have to move to a new server because otherwise DearDiary will be on a server on its own and it can’t afford to pay for that – so it has to go where all the other…

Is it possible for you to provide me with a list of diaries I am on the notify list of before the change? I’m on lists of folks who hardly ever update. I’m afraid I’ll forget to add myself to them without a reminder. Unfortunately, that’s one of the biggest reasons for the change –…

Hi guys, This isn’t a whinge or a moan, its a genuine request for help because this has floundered for too long now and I’m getting depressed about it… What do I have to do to make this place (DearDiary.Net) viable as a business? Even one that might one day pay its own server fees…

I have received too many complaints about a certain, nameless diarist, that I have had to (at least temporarily) revoke our non-interference strategy that was invoked some months back and have made the diary private. I am in discussion with the author and await their response – though I’m not sure I hold out much…

Pringles asks a question about whether something is a legal issue. The answer is, it’s not up to us, we’re not trained or qualified to answer any questions of legality and if we were to give you guidance on this topic we’d likely be causing yourself and ourselves more harm than if we didn’t. If…

There seems to be a bit of confusion as to exactly what a Web Spider is/does so let me explain! 🙂 Search Engines, how do they work? When you enter in a search and click go, does it go to all the sites on the Internet or something else? The answer is the latter. It…