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Monday, 17 June 2002
Incommunicado

Last Thursday, Eudora locked up while trying to retrieve my email. This generally occurs if, for some reason, my site isn't responding — so I tried to call up a page on my site, which timed out. So I tried pinging it. No response. I tried a traceroute, which stopped at the machine just before mine.

So I called the tech support line at my Webhosting service (OCHosting.com), and they said it appeared to be a server issue, and they'd look into it.

When I got home, my wife had taken a phone call from someone who claimed that OCHosting had gone out of business, and would I like to sign up with them instead? This sounded fishy, so I called OCHosting again, and got a recording confirming that they had, indeed, gone out of business. Nice of them to tell their customers!

So I moved to C I Host, whose services OCHosting was merely reselling. They moved the page content over relatively quickly, though it took them some time to actually copy over the MySQL databases. And I've apparently got to rebuild my .bashrc and .htaccess files on my own, and wait for the DNS changes to propagate. Sigh.

Thanks, OCHosting. Smegheads.

Posted by godfrey (link)
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