Hosting problems
Submitted by M.Jaynes on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 22:12
What a week! Some probably noticed this site was completely down during the last week. This occurred because the hosting service attempted a major upgrade to their servers, which took an inordinate amount of time. Normally it's a process which takes a few hours with little downtime. This incompetent service dropped the ball in a big way, so it ended up taking all week just to find out they lost 100% of my data during the transition. Luckily, I had backed up mostly everything to my hard drive about a month ago. Only a few of the last posts have been lost permanently, and some pictures didn't make it but I can upload those again later (done).
This affected my personal site as well, and more frustrating is that my personal email is still in limbo as of this writing. (personal email is fixed)
This weekend I`ve spent many hours researching new hosts and finally relocating the site to a new service. It's another free one, so I`m crossing my fingers that we don't experience yet another "get what you pay for" moment.