Hosting Providers

I apologize for the lack of news, updates, and the boring stuff I post about on a near-daily basis. I was hit with a triple whammy: my move, my car and problems with my hosting provider.

My move is going relatively smoothly. I received a binding estimate from Allied Van Lines and they are moving my things from Minneapolis to Boston. They load the truck on Saturday, and my things should arrive anywhere between the 9th and the 19th. It probably could have gotten their sooner, but I had to schedule around a wedding I am attending in NYC on Columbus Day. (BTW, I am looking forward to the wedding…it will be fun!)

As for my car…I was in a hurry last weekend so I took it to a car wash to get the grime off of it. It has just been sitting in the garage lately, and it was looking dirty. Well, the car wash I took it to took some paint off of the door and rear panel. I am pretty upset about this because they refused to accept blame and submit it to their insurance company. It is just unethical and I’m pretty frustrated with the situation. I will post more about what I decide to do later.

Lastly, my hosting provider was purchased by another company. At the same time, they said they switched servers because the old server was dying. I suspect that they possibly purchased all our accounts and moved them to a new server. Unfortunately, the new hosting provider did not configure the servers correctly…they misconfigured FTP, forgot to install Sendmail, etc. So, I switched to Dreamhost. I got a great introductory deal ( a year for 9 dollars), and their interface is awesome.