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Oct
Back Blogging
September was a pretty horrible month, given that my hosting company finally fell out from under me. I can’t say I didn’t see it coming - the service in the last 3 months was pretty dire , and they had a major security breach which appeared to be the last straw. In case you’re wondering , they were (past tense) a US based crowd called Netbunch.
Still , every cloud, Silver lining etc. It takes something as drastic as this to force people to move hosting company. In my case , I’d signed up for Enterprise Java hosting with RimuHosting (a New Zealand based crowd, it’s called after a tree which explains the strange name!), but could never make the time to move the files accross. Not having email or a web site concentrates the mind, and in the end the move was pretty easy - about 2 days total.
Lessons learned:
- You get what you pay for.
- You can never have too many backups
- You don’t have to host everything in one place. For email , Google can now host your company email (e.g. Bob@somedomain.com). Google is a lot less likely to fall over than your website.
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Now if you excuse me , I have about 100 more blog entries to restore …
November 21st, 2006 at 10:12 pm
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January 9th, 2007 at 8:27 am
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January 19th, 2007 at 8:38 am
[...] Seems that both Michele and Tom will be at the Irish Blog Awards (but not the Barcamp in Waterford this Saturday). Tom’s not happy with his hosting. Make that Tom is very unhappy with the hosting. Will it all end in a barroom brawl in the basement of the Alexendar hotel? My own opinion is that all hosting contracts, like politics, end in tears. I’ve sympathy with Tom , having recently been in a similar situation. In my case , I have nobody to blame but myself: [...]