Right, I’ve had enough of the crappy service I’m getting here at Bluehost. Every single day, this site goes down. The outages are becoming more and more curious. I sent a complaint into Bluehost asking why the server kept on going down. On why they were unable to maintain good uptime and failed to get an answer. The truth of the matter is that I’m paying for uptime that I’m not getting.
I chose Bluehost as it was recommended to me by a friend who said that they were fast, dependable and good value. And they were in the beginning. But as the international price wars between hosting centres has heated up over the last while, you have to wonder if these economy-class hosters have fallen out of the yellow-pack brigade and into the hedgerows.
Today’s outage was accompanied by this humdinger of a support message on the server status console:
Our web servers handle hundreds of databases, some of which may become corrupted occasionally. Your server is currently undergoing a database repair, which usually completes succesfully, but may take 20-60 minutes.
Talk to me like I’m a child, do. Please talk to me like a child when you are doing upgrades on scripts that do not affect Wordpress on server, but then decide to that a complete outage for up to 30mins is necessary. Please talk to me like I’m a child, Mr. Bluehost support status, because I like it!
Right, so. Off I go. This blog is migrating to Blacknight. I’m off to buy a package. Conor just moved and has only good things to say about them. That’s enough of a rec for me. I hope it’ll be an easy move. Much easier than sitting here for another day watching the Bluehost server status console.
Call it the curse of a geek, with the plethora of new Web 2.0 services coming out month after month, don’t you sometimes find it difficult to write that little bio blurb on your profile page? Yes, I know that somewhere in the not too distant future there’ll be a hot service that plumbs all that info together in a safe way. Perhaps, it’ll be OpenID. Maybe another solution, who knows?
But until then, could you imagine what it would be like to outsource that very basic bio description for someone else to write? Would it be sycophantic? Would it be dangerously funny?
So, if you had to write the bio of a blogger you admired what would it be? I’m still composing my one. Oh, and this isn’t a love-in. Just posing a thought.
I’m kicking off discussion today as I see that Mr Rick is DJing at Soundcheck on September 5th. I’m sure that there’ll be some cheerleaders and general blogger tail in town to support him, so is this a good date for the next Tweetup?
If Soundcheck kicks off at 7pm, maybe dinner ought to start at 7-ish. Be finished before 8:30 and then onto DJ set? Hmm, maybe a place on the Southside too so it’s not a hundred miles away from Spy?
Okay, so I’m just thowing this out there. You can discuss in the comments where, what and when to do it. A different date is fine, if people don’t want to do September 5th. And I know there’s talk of karaoke (nods at Marie and Elly), but that kinda scares people.
There will – (adds emphasis here) – not be any peanut fighting at Tweetup 4. Unless, of course, you want to throw them at me. Just a little.
With all of the talk about how Chinese authorities have backed down from their promises of free and unfettered web access for the Olympics, eyes rest on the Great Firewall.
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With all of the talk about how Chinese authorities have backed down from their promises of free and unfettered web access for the Olympics, eyes rest on the Great Firewall.