I just did something cool, and wanted to upload an image to my Web server so I could post it here, and…
…my Web site is down.
MOST of my Web sites are down. Everyone hosted on one of Earthlink’s largest and busiest servers is down, which means: My clients are down. My business site is down. Gah!
Goddamn Earthlink anyway. Just spent 45 minutes on hold for tech support, they’re having serious internal problems and their mail servers are down, too. Going to be down ’til 5 AM at least.
Suck, suck, suck. At least the sites I have hosted with GoDaddy are still up…
I feel for you, but…. why on Earth would you ever let a company like Earthlink host an important site?
*sigh* Because the sites have been around since 1997 or so, and I didn’t know any better back then. At this point, some of them can’t be moved–either because they have extensive ecommerce back-ends, or (in one case) because back in 1996 the site was hosted by a small ISP called “Rapid Systems” belonging to the brother of an ex-partner of mine, and that ex-partner is no longer speaking to me, and his brother registered the domain name in his own name instead of mine, and he’s put a register lock on the name which he’s refused to remove so I can’t move the site…it’s a mess.
Don’t you miss the days when “technical contact” actually meant something?
*shrug* I’ve got space in the L3 datacenter if you wanna throw a box at me.
Nowadays, “technical contact” means “a data center in Bangalore,” when it means anything at all.
Unfortunately, as it stands now moving off Earthlink is non-trivial. I’ve migrated all my sites off Earthlink save for two–one of which is a very busy ecommerce site using Earthlink’s backend software (Miva Merchant, an expensive piece of software), that gets so much traffic the bandwidth and ecommerce would kill me financially if I had to move it, and the other is registrar-locked and registered to a person who isn’t speaking to me because his brother owes me a lot of money. :/
I feel for you, but…. why on Earth would you ever let a company like Earthlink host an important site?
*sigh* Because the sites have been around since 1997 or so, and I didn’t know any better back then. At this point, some of them can’t be moved–either because they have extensive ecommerce back-ends, or (in one case) because back in 1996 the site was hosted by a small ISP called “Rapid Systems” belonging to the brother of an ex-partner of mine, and that ex-partner is no longer speaking to me, and his brother registered the domain name in his own name instead of mine, and he’s put a register lock on the name which he’s refused to remove so I can’t move the site…it’s a mess.
Sympathy to you for having to deal with really annoying technical crap.
Sympathy to you for having to deal with really annoying technical crap.
Sympathy to you for having to deal with really annoying technical crap.
Sympathy to you for having to deal with really annoying technical crap.
Don’t you miss the days when “technical contact” actually meant something?
*shrug* I’ve got space in the L3 datacenter if you wanna throw a box at me.
Nowadays, “technical contact” means “a data center in Bangalore,” when it means anything at all.
Unfortunately, as it stands now moving off Earthlink is non-trivial. I’ve migrated all my sites off Earthlink save for two–one of which is a very busy ecommerce site using Earthlink’s backend software (Miva Merchant, an expensive piece of software), that gets so much traffic the bandwidth and ecommerce would kill me financially if I had to move it, and the other is registrar-locked and registered to a person who isn’t speaking to me because his brother owes me a lot of money. :/