It this just not an awesome graph?
There have been many of you who are in the SIB to let me know you cannot see this message!!! I am so excited. Let me show a bit more of the graphic.
What strikes me is the third very large divot of M3 being offline. This is during the time when email goes out to all of the subscribers and traffic around here skyrockets. FYI, Go Daddy cannot say *I* broke it. During the divots, everyone on that grid were down. Like, now.
See, as I am writing this, M3 is nowhere to be found. I am forced to write this, in what appears to the naked eye as, offline. Even the backroom of M3 is offline, not just that part you enjoy. The part where I make it happen… Missing. Poof! Gone.
Spiders cannot crawl it. Search engines come up to nothing. Faithful M3 Readers are left with a whirlygig. We all know how much we despise the whirlygig. Or you got this creative piece of [expletive].
Leave it to the PTB to give you an error with no discernible line of contact. Everyone needs the SIB in their address books. Either go to Ask Momma or type your name after mommasmoneymatters.com/ in your address bar to get it. I will take the Google hit for it.
There are a few of you who were able to see M3 compliments of the extensive cloud coverage I have employed for M3. Your inconvenience came in the form of being unable to comment or Love! or star or interact with the live internal links. This is because time was standing still.
As you may recall, I revealed you cannot discern the passage of my virtual time. I appear to be everywhere all at the same time. No, McGonegal did not give me a time turner. Instead, I have loaded cached versions of M3 to cloud servers around the world. In the event my host, hereinafter referred to as Voldemort, decides in his evil wisdom to take M3 offline. The information is still available. The interaction is not.
Why am I Red today?
I pay for dedicated IP servers. This means M3 is not (supposed to be) on a huge server with a gazillion other “just a blog”s. I pay to have it on a server where when the power goes out in the neighborhood (the grid), the lights are still burning at M3.
Guess what. Voldemort had to admit today, I was indeed on a shared hosting grid. No, they cannot move this behemoth off the shared host server because (they are too stupid to do what they are paid to do, they cannot contact the server housing this behemoth, they have their pants around their ankles trying to figure out who broke it).
Can you guess who is back on the Google spankies list for being inaccessible?
More Red.
After spending a few hours on the telephone with web hosts, I am rather irked to report the hosts which were suggested to me thus far are unable to handle the demand of M3 with at least as much attention as Voldemort has paid. Meanwhile, I am working on getting into a beta of a dedicated server program which may solve parts of this problem.
I wish a had a saw buck for every time I heard the words…
For a BLOG?!”
…when discussing the amount of traffic, data and bandwidth involved in hosting M3. I could hear Clyde whistling in the background. Just wait until you see what he has up his sleeve for Saturday.
Request
Anyone who reads this post, please comment with your suggestion for a web host. M3 is packing its bags.
Update
After this post went live, M3 was offline for another 14 minute span for a total of eight hours and 30 minutes. Woo. Stinking. Hoo.
prenin
/ November 8, 2012Sorry I can’t help Red. I’m just a humble user these days! 🙁
Go Daddy sure does sound like it’s utter pants! 🙁
Love and hugs always!
Prenin.
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Red
/ November 8, 2012Go Daddy and I are already negotiating a refund. They know this was the final straw. I now have to find someone to accommodate M3. {HUGZ}
Angela Young
/ November 8, 2012No recommendations, sorry! I still get an e-mail when you post, even though I follow through google reader. I hope you get things worked out soon!
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Red
/ November 8, 2012You and I both, Angie!
Binky
/ November 8, 2012I know where I am you can get a dedicated IP with a muti-shared host, so I guess that’s what you ended up. Maybe it’s fully dedicated host time, but of course they cost a lot.
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Red
/ November 8, 2012Yes, I know. I pay for that service with Go Daddy. I will soon be paying for that service with another host. I think I have one. I have to do some more research, but it may pan out. I would be ecstatic to move before I launch the rest of RP.
Gail Thornton
/ November 8, 2012Dear Red,
I pray that your lead pans out. This is so crooked of GoDaddy that they deserve to be exposed. A refund doesn’t even cut it where the work and anger and frustration they’ve caused you is concerned. Thank you for the graphics.
Gailxxx
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Red
/ November 9, 2012This is so fueling my vacation plans 😉
Valentine Logar
/ November 9, 2012DDD3 – that is what I think. We are going to rename them and red hat them constantly.
I don’t know what you do. But I do like D squared.
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Red
/ November 9, 2012I think I need seven read hats. You know how I like to change them with my mood, even when the mood is still pissy.
Bearman
/ November 9, 2012So how do you set it up so you don’t get that Internal Service Error page?
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Red
/ November 9, 2012You cannot. The 500 series is your host. It is an error with them. Unless you are hosting yourself, there is nothing you can do. It is an industry standard page so the host is not identified for failing to provide service. They customize the pages which say it is your fault.
Bearman
/ November 10, 2012ahhhh I’ll never get this internet stuff
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Androgoth
/ November 9, 2012I hope that they are refunding you handsomely after all this lost up-time Red as they seem to be exceptionally quick to take down your site at any given opportunity and just offer you BS excuses during your hours on the phone, again talking to those empty craniums 🙁 Pathetic…
I hope that your next web host has a better response to your M3 Space as the present handlers are obviously lacking in every department 🙁 Hopeless…
And this is your reward for paying up front…
Andro xxx
Red
/ November 9, 2012As with your insurer, once they have your money, they could not possibly care any less about their service to you. The majority of them think their billing department is the only one worth its salt. I recently did a survey after a telecall for another company. My chief suggestion to them was to take “billing or make a payment” off of choice number one of every menu. To be frank, I think after I press the button for “technical support” or “contract information” or “speak to an agent” it is pretty clear, I am not there to pay a stinking bill. Ugh.
Androgoth
/ November 9, 2012Craniums too 🙂 lmao
My typos get worse 🙂 lol
Andro xxx
Red
/ November 9, 2012😉 Whatever do you mean?
Androgoth
/ November 9, 2012🙂 Thank you
And yes those companies
suck big time, ALL of them 🙁
Andro xxx
Derek Mansker
/ November 9, 2012Run…run…run and never look back. I don’t have any suggestions. There are options out there. What a joke that whole thing is. They should be ashamed of themselves. They won’t be, but they should be.
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Red
/ November 10, 2012That is the shameful part, Derek. They will not be ashamed. To them the joke is having gotten the money and not provided the service. Ugh.