When servers bite back
Friday, September 28th, 2007
The observant amongst you may have noticed we had a couple of hours of unexpected down-time last night. Oops. What was supposed to be a routine software upgrade on our server turned out to be a bit more involved than predicted. As a result, we were off-line for a chunk of the evening.
But we’re back, and running faster and more reliably than ever! Thanks have to go to our friends at our great Edinburgh-based web hosting provider, Xeriom Networks who were ready as always to step in and save the day if we made a real mess of the server!
The geeks among you might be interested to know that EdinburghMenus.com is now running on the latest version of PHP 5 (5.2.4) and MySQL (5.0.44). How exciting. As well as making the site a bit snappier generally, this software upgrade will make it easier for us to incorporate some new features like OpenID logins and Facebook integration.

Some users on EdinburghMenus.com have written literally dozens of reviews now. As you’ll already know from our previous post, 