The company that provides hosting for this here blog seems to be at best some sort of amateur hobby run by a buncg of stoners out on the wet coast. They’ve consistently failed to renew domain names, regster new domain names in a timely fasion, and now they lost all redundant disks in a RAID array on their server and have no backups.
The upside is when they finally restored my account so I could at least try to recover from my own backups (which I made when this site was cracked a few weeks back), they seem to have granted me pretty much unlimited access and multiple add-ons that I have not paid for. Not that I’ll use such treasures, but I’ll be sure to check the next bill and I’m dang well prepared to switch to a different provider if they try to charge me extra.
The downside is that I lost all my pretty pictures, since I didn’t include them in my backups (I still have the originas of course, but I don’t remember what I posted where) and my themeing, which I was going to get around to changing some day anyways, as soon as another hour is added on to the day (a legitimate election promise?).
The grippingside is that between the cracking and the service failure I haven’t had much chance to post updates,so there may be a slew coming down the pipe soon.
My domain, the one you used to reach what you’re reading right now, had to be reregistered last weekend. Swell, these things happen. My service provider invoiced me, I paid, everything was peachy. then I got a dunning letter fro CIRA threatening me with suspension unless I reregistered. Meh, I thought, I’ve done that, they should get their records straight.
Come Sunday morning at precisely 12:01 AM, my domain registration was suspended and I got a terse email saying, effectively, “I told you so” from CIRA.
It seems the service provider accepted my money but forgot to actually renew the registration. So, for the three days it took to get in touch with the provider, have them figure things out, get in touch with CIRA, and have that propagate through the DNS I was a nobody. I’m just glad I don’t make any money off of this. Hmm, I can’t believe I just said that.
Anyways, for those of you who missed me, I’m back.
I’ve had a heck of a time trying to get this software to work. I’ve now uninstalled and reinstalled everything in hopes that that will allow me to post once again.
Evidently it works because I posted this successfully. Feh.
I had to get rid of all the old stuff posted here so I could upgrade to a newer, more secure version of the software. Hang on while all the dumps are ironed out.