Jack Keller’s Disappeared Wine Blog Update
Ξ March 30th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ A Day at a Time, Interviews, Wine News, Winemakers |
For the many folks who’ve recently visited this blog searching for information on Jack Keller, and to those who’ve taken the time to inquire about the disappearance of his very fine home-making wine sites from the internet these past few days, I can reassure you all is well! I spoke to Mr. Keller just a short time ago (4:30 p.m. 3/30) and here is what he said:
Jack Keller Well, seems my internet hosting company was bought out. (laughs) I got an email a couple of weeks ago saying there would be a changeover from one to another, but that it would be ’seamless’. Well, it wasn’t seamless! Everything just disappeared. And what they did is that they changed the convention internally that calls up the site. Well, everything just disappeared. They have been so snowed in with calls. They did this world-wide. So I’m not the only one that disappeared.
Would you care to name them?
JK I really don’t want to. They recognize their mistake. But I just been on the phone. It’s taken me awhile for me to get through to Tech Support. I finally did. The last two days I’ve not been able to do that. Their Tech Support has just been flooded. So, I got through and I believe we’ve straightened it out. But it is going to take a couple of hours, they say, maybe as long as four hours for everything to get hashed out. But everything should be up later tonight. The proof of the pudding is in the eating! I’ll see…
At least I’ve got the Tech Support number. If it’s not up I’ll call them back.
You had everything backed up, I imagine, all the thousands of pages!
JK Yes, I do. Everything is backed up but you don’t want to lose it. It is a lot of work to go back and have to recreate that. We’ll see what happens in a few hours here.
I’ve been fielding emails from concerned citizens around the country asking me if I knew anything! I’ve been answering dutifully.
JK Thank you. Well, let me tell you, your [phone] message came through before my message machine maxed out. (laughs)
So you had a lot of people calling?
JK Yeah. I’ve gotten a few calls here…
Your health is good?
JK Very good, very good. I’ve had a nice winter. It looks like we’re coming out of it, finally. I’ve got grapes on the vines, little bitty baby grapes.
Any new winemaking adventures?
JK Well, let’s see… just the usual unusual wines. (laughs) I’ve been doing a little writing for WineMaker mag.
Delightful
JK Well, listen Ken, I’m glad you called. I’m sorry I was not able to hash this out before now. You’ve been getting calls, I’ve been getting calls, emails. I have a lot of explaining to do! I’m going to write one generic answer. It’s going to have to fit all.
There are a lot of people out there who really look up to you, so…
JK Well, thank you, I thank them.
Well, thank you for talking with me. I’ll get this on my site as soon as possible.
JK Thank you for calling.
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—For my interview with Jack Keller some months ago please see this and this.
