reader's digest version
a bunch of people who've called have read my dribble here and, to no-one's surprise, are still not clear on what happened. The truth is that the blog has been the front for an International jewel smuggling ring and we were caught. Contrary to popular belief, you cannot fool the Poles.
OR what really happened is the old host had some problems and figured out that Whippleworld's traffic was the biggest draw on his server. Of course, we've been at this same usage for the entire year, he just noticed it now. Second to hardware failure, lack of headroom in system resources is the main problem a guy would have so the solution, in his mind, was to immediately stop traffic to our site. I can understand him saying "our systems are having some problems and my server can no longer handle what your website is drawing", it just should have been done with a couple of emails giving us time to move without any downtime. He froze us out without any warning or any concern for our site going down. Then he takes up to six hours between emails as we're trying to negotiate getting our data back. Bottom line is that we needed a server with more resources and now we'll have it. Not just a little but 10 times more so this move is something that, although this was a messy way to do it, was going to have to happen at some point.
OR what really happened is the old host had some problems and figured out that Whippleworld's traffic was the biggest draw on his server. Of course, we've been at this same usage for the entire year, he just noticed it now. Second to hardware failure, lack of headroom in system resources is the main problem a guy would have so the solution, in his mind, was to immediately stop traffic to our site. I can understand him saying "our systems are having some problems and my server can no longer handle what your website is drawing", it just should have been done with a couple of emails giving us time to move without any downtime. He froze us out without any warning or any concern for our site going down. Then he takes up to six hours between emails as we're trying to negotiate getting our data back. Bottom line is that we needed a server with more resources and now we'll have it. Not just a little but 10 times more so this move is something that, although this was a messy way to do it, was going to have to happen at some point.
posted by John Whipple at 10:21 AM
6 Comments:
This thing sure makes me appreciate wordpress.
"Contrary to popular belief, you cannot fool the Poles."
That is unless you're a Republician!
OK, OK, settle down. That was me doing a humor check. Now back to the demilitarized zone.
Cut me some slack, it was just too much of a easy punchline to pass up.
HAR HAR HAR snort
I guess I could have spelled Republican right.
But that was Ralph.
Ralph spells it "E-V-I-L"
I don't think anybody's reading anymore, so it's okay to misbehave.
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