Well to be honest, I manage a blog with another user.

Last year due to various hacks and security things I decided to see if I could mod the heck out of the site.

The latest wordpress had some sort of health check and I put all sorts of errors about security and the like.

While I managed to fix most of them php and sql were out of date and that needed the host to move on this.

On sql they moved swiftly but on php they kept doing excuses saying it would cause dammage to their network and others had issues.

In late march round the 28th, there was a 2 day server outage, with no explanation.

When everything came back up, I was plesently surprised that not only was everything updated but they had updated to the latest version.

I am unsure how it happened but it did.

It happened with no notification and was utterly random though.

So I am not sure if the messages  sent did anything.

So yeah, web hosts hmph.

If it ever gets accessible my plan will be to get a cheap web hosting plan maybe something with a gb or so of storage and maybe some bandwidth enough to serve a wordpress blog.

Either that or just make another wordpress blog on wordpress free, link it with a .tk domain then use keybase.public for file storage.

At least if keybase starts working that is what I may end up doing.


Its just good that it was eventually done


On 12/06/2020 12:29 am, Jeremy Kaldobsky wrote:
Believe me John, I've had that same thought over and over during the years, Haha!

What has finally got me to stick it out during these issues, are horror stories from others about the web hosts they've used, and realizing how rare these issues have been over the entire 21-22 years I've used them.  It's one of those things like if the power goes out for 20 minutes someone gets upset, until they stop and remember it's the first time they've lost power in 3 years. All in all, it isn't so bad, I just get angry in the moment.

Over the years, I think I've heard similar web host horror stories about all of the main providers.  Now I'm sure someone who sets up a static page to post some cooking recipes, or a standard blog type of setup, could probably go forever without any issues on almost any web host.  There's a lot fewer ways the web host could mess them up, because their site has very few requirements.  It could just be me running across a specific set of stories by coincidence, but I've developed the belief that any web host I move to is going to have it's own problems every now and then.  All I'd be doing is spending a ton of work moving to a new place that will be more of the same.  Maybe not the exact same problems, but it'll have some way of messing up my normal flow every few years or so.  Haha, maybe this is just me trying to avoid all of the work of moving everything over to a new host.

- Aprone



On Thursday, June 11, 2020, 7:30:06 AM EDT, john <[email protected]> wrote:


That's... one weird web host.

I know you've had quite a few problems with them in the past. It might be worth considering switching away, even though it'll cost a bit of time, because a decent host shouldn't be modifying your traffic (or having any of the other problems you have, really).



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