Today, the Houston Association of Realtor's site came down today, with no reports of exactly what happened. Since late on the 2nd of May, the consumer site for HAR began having technical difficulties, along with the agent sites, neighborhood reports, and even IDX feeds agents frame on their sites.
After calling HAR technical support, there is on estimated completion time for this outage to be repaired, but they are aware of the problem and working to resolve it as quickly as possible. I will be sure to keep you abreast of any news that transpires.
- Who spilled their coffee on the servers?-
UPDATE AS OF MAY 4, 2007: HAR sent out an email early this morning with the following information:
Late Wednesday night, a virus threat was identified to the servers that operate the HAR.com Web site. In a precautionary move, the Houston Association of Realtors locked down those servers, which took the public HAR.com off-line, as well as thousands of member and company Web sites hosted by those servers. At no time was there any risk to anyone who accessed the Web site.
We cannot anticipate at this point how long it will take to repair the system, but we will post regular updates on the HAR.com homepage, as appropriate.
On a side note, has your associations site ever had long technical difficulties and how did that effect your business?
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Steve Castaneda, Realtor, is a Houston real estate consultant that specializes in Houston Real Estate. He is the team leader of the MyHomeHouston team, a real estate group focused on leveraging the latest technology and giving excellent service to their clients.
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