“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” - James Dean
Posted in Panama Journal on Nov 23rd, 2008
I got up this morning to find that Chiriquí Chatter was not up. However, the error I was getting was a different error, a database error. I remembered that there was a configuration change to a Wordpress script that HostMDS had requested that I make changing ‘dbhost’ to ‘localhost’. I made that change and Chiriquí [...]
Posted in Technology, Web Host Related on Nov 22nd, 2008
For the last three days, I have had major outages from my web host HOSTMDS.
HOSTMDS is growing and acquiring other hosts. My previous web host, VistaPages, was one of those acquisitions. Acquisition of this sort dictates changes. Changes undoubtedly cause outages. I am telling you this, because of the major interruptions that Chiriquí Chatter [...]
Posted in Web Host Related on Nov 20th, 2008
Well, I am sure that several of you tried to view Chiriquí Chatter during the last 17+ hours and were unsuccessful. As I write this, everything seems to be restored. Apparently my web host had to restore libraries. I know that libraries were restored, because the last photo I had uploaded was not there and [...]
Posted in Technology, Web Host Related on Aug 6th, 2008
I just received the following email, from my web-host, notifying me of upcoming maintance. I will pass the information on to you, so you will not be surprised. I appreciate their notifying me.
Vistapages.com
August 6, 2008
Dear Valued Customer:
During the past 6 or so months, Vistapages network and technology teams have been improving our data center and [...]
Posted in Web Host Related on Jul 5th, 2008
My web host is moving things to “provide better support”. Somehow in doing these moves, they deleted a couple of recent posts.
If you thought you read a post and it disappeared, that is what happened. I am putting them back out when I see that they are missing.
Nothing is perfect. Some less so than others.
Posted in Software, Technology, Web Host Related on May 21st, 2008
Since my web host moved CC to the “flavor of the day” improvement called Clustered service, all blog functions are not working well. In the past, when a comment came in, I would receive an immediate email notification generated by WordPress. Now the notification may come up to a day late or in some cases [...]
Posted in Panama Journal on Apr 9th, 2006
If you tried to access Chiriqui Chatter last night, it is likely that the site was MIA. Before going to bed, I couldn’t even access the Host’s webpage to find out what was going on.
This morning, I went to the Host’s site and this is what VistaPages is reporting.
Dear Valued Customers,
At approximately 10:20PM EST on [...]
Posted in Web Host Related on Mar 30th, 2006
After posting the last post on VistaPages, I guess I need to set myself a deadline to re-evaluate whether continuing with VistaPages is better than switching to another host. I know VistaPages is a small provider. They are also a priced very low, which at the time I signed up was very important. While my [...]
Posted in Web Host Related on Mar 30th, 2006
VistaPages (my web host for Chiriqui Chatter) is certainly not doing anything to instill confidence in me in their ability to provide consistent uptime and high quality response time. Over the last few weeks I have had several instances when I have not been able to get into this website (either the blog area or [...]
Posted in Web Host Related on Dec 24th, 2005
I need to say thanks to VistaPages for correcting the problem I had in my Photo Album software. When I had done the last upgrade, it didn’t take and VistaPages had to restore to the previous version. After I gave them the information they needed the correction was in place in about an hour’s time. [...]
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