All it takes is one little mistake and the guilty go free. Shame on the DA who let this slip buy; check your facts next time.
Jan
5
The phrase ‘Who’s your daddy’ gets thrown around frequently in the office where I work, especially during an Unreal Tournament game. So where did this phrase come from? Read this to find out.
Jan
5
You scored as Lawful Good. A lawful good person acts as a good person is expected or required to act. They are dedicated to upholding both what is right and what is set down in law.
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What is your Alignment?
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Jan
3
If you were viewing this blog during the Christmas holidays you probably noticed something, or possibly a lack of it. This site, and all of the web sites I host with my current provider, was down for several days. And when it came back up it was missing entries! Why did this happen? Well, that is a story of poor customer service and a lack of a proper execution plan.
My hosting provider, Buzzsawhosting, decided to improve the services they offer to their customers by upgrading to a better server. Now, on the surface, this sounds like a good idea. However, you really should have a strong execution plan in place before you attempt to pull it off. And maybe, just maybe, you should notify your customers before you attempt such an execution plan. I’m sure you can figure it out, but they failed on both the notification and execution plan. In fact their idea of notification was to post a notice in their forum just before they began. What, give the customers time to backup their sites and databases? Na, this will go so smooth that they will never notice. Ya, Right!
You see the real problem with upgrading to a new server is that the hosting provider had to get all new IP Addresses for the box. That meant the private nameservers I host there had new IP Addresses. Would have been nice to know that. Especially since it takes up to 72 hours to propagate nameserver changes across the entire internet. And thus the reason why this site and others went down on Christmas. What a fantastic present! And here I thought my spam email was stopping because the spammers took a holiday. That would have been thoughtful of them, but sadly not the case.
To add insult to injury, once I was able to get the nameserver IP Addresses changed, and the propagation time passed, some of the applications no longer worked properly. I must have spent almost an entire afternoon going back and forth with tech support to get everything fixed.
At this time I believe I have finally gotten everything back online and working for all sites. I even managed to recover (with help from tech support) the missing blog posts from the database on the old server.
Now lets hope they don’t decide to do that again for some time. Or at least have the common sense to notify me via email one week before any future changes take place. That way I could manage everyone’s expectations better.