After site problems, mountainx.com is back on line

The Mountain Xpress website crashed this afternoon during what should have been routine maintenance. Imagine our chagrin. We apologize for the inconvenience.

We had to reset the site using a back-up generated at 3 a.m. this morning. As a result, we lost all of today’s entries made to our online, including Calendar, Classifieds, Clubland and comment sections.

If you submitted any content to the site since 3 a.m. today, please re-submit it or contact us at (828) 251-1333.

Meanwhile, we’re happy to report that the latest print edition of Xpress has arrived, complete with part one of our annual Best of WNC readers poll. Registering 136 pages in length, it has our distribution team hard at work.

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About Margaret Williams
Editor Margaret Williams first wrote for Xpress in 1994. An Alabama native, she has lived in Western North Carolina since 1987 and completed her Masters of Liberal Arts & Sciences from UNC-Asheville in 2016. Follow me @mvwilliams

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3 thoughts on “After site problems, mountainx.com is back on line

  1. boatrocker

    Sorry, well informed types did not miss anything. Ashvegas took up the slack.
    How long were you all offline again?

    • Purple Unicorn

      Always making those insightful contributions boatrocker. You’re my hero!

    • Margaret Williams

      Just a few hours, Boatrocker, but that’s 1,000 years in Web time (or a million in dog years?). Our new, WordPress-based site is generally pretty robust, and we’re glad we had a backup. Some staffers do have a strange feeling of déja vu today, however, as they re-do some editing and content-entry tasks completed yesterday.

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