I have had one hell of an aggravating time dealing with my website host. Couldn’t find their ass with both hands, a map, and a dumbass-to-English dictionary. That said, I’M BAAAACK! It feels great to be up and running again. I am sorry I haven’t kept up with you all very well in dealing with the mess that has been PlanetHuff.
Basically, my host decided to upgrade servers. The email they sent informing me of this wonderful event went into my junk folder, which I only check every few days. They dumped my old server literally two days after they sent the email. For cripe’s sake, I could have been on vacation! What was I supposed to do? I have been emailing back and forth trying to get them to help me out, but I don’t think they know how.
Here’s a short list of problems I encountered:
- They deleted my site. Or, I should say, they prevented me or anyone else from accessing it, though they had all my files stashed away somewhere, because they uploaded them to the site on the new server (once they set that up, which I had to tell them to do — imbeciles!) in the form of a tar.gz (compression) file.
- I had to unpack the tar.gz file and figure out (again) exactly how you’re supposed to install Movable Type, which isn’t exactly a cakewalk. That took the bulk of the time I’ve been absent.
- I thought my blog was going to have to be completely rebuilt, but it turns out my host actually put my old MySQL database into that tar.gz file, and Steve knew how to get that puppy uploaded.
- I had to do all kinds of wonky things with setting permissions for my site, but most of you probably wouldn’t know what I was talking about, nor would you care.
- My stupid server “isn’t configured to serve CSS files.” Can you believe that? I found a workaround for that issue at Webmaster World forums. It seems to be working. I can now see my CSS in Firefox, and my site looks as I intended. What do you think, Cranky? Back to normal for you, too?
- My comments weren’t working because I was an idiot and forgot to change the post URL for my comments at Junk Eater, which filters all my comments to prevent comment spam.
There were some days when the thought of working on this blog made me want to bang my head in frustration. But I did it.
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