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BAD HOST. BAD.

As those of you who have read the root fidius.org page know, phpwebhosting (the worst web host ever), has royally fucked my various sites. In brief: about three weeks ago, the server I was hosted on went down with a bad drive. Totally understandable, though the three days of no updates about the status of the sever was sort of uncool. Then, for some as-yet unknown reason, they decided to pull the plug on my site altogether, forbidding all access to my directories (including mine via ssh and ftp), breaking my email, etc. Still no word on why (I’m guessing my site got too popular when they released the new Pirates of the Carribean, making their “you’ll never need to worry about using too much bandwith” claim a big fucking lie), after several emails, trouble tickets, etc. or whether they’re going to fix it. Special note to phpwebhosting: Thanks, fuckers. You cost me several hundred dollars and my page rank.

Now, we’ve switched to Dreamhost (based mostly on the recommendation of Ryan), a decision I would have made long ago if I’d known how much better they were, and slowly uploading our slightly out-of-date backup files into the appropriate places. It will take a while. Some things won’t be back, since my backup process wasn’t what you’d call “comprehensive”. Or “good”. Or “adequate”.

In the meantime, I suggest you brush up on your “Know How” know-how.

Filed by shaun at July 28th, 2006 under indifferenthonest