my website is down for renovation

[miriam_e]

If you happen to visit my website over the next 4 or 5 days you'll find it is inaccessible. That's because I'm currently shifting to a better service provider.

When everything is back up, it will still be at the same address, though some of the items in the site will have changed position because I'm taking the opportunity to reorganise things more logically too.

Comments

[greylock]

Missing a trick there!


http://www.animatedgif.net/underconstruction/anim0206-1_e0.gif




You should have busted these babies out!

[miriam_e]

:) Yeah

Interesting. I had no idea there was a site devoted to animgifs.

Actually, if I'd realised there was a problem with my account, my site would still be open and available and I probably wouldn't be moving just now. I've been unhappy at the cost/value of GoDaddy for a while. They used to be great value for money, but have begun to lag badly. I'd considered closing my account with them and switching to another host for some time. Normally my account is renewed automatically, but I'd forgotten to update the new expiry date on my debit card so the payment wasn't attempted. My fault, but they didn't email me to say there was a problem so when I tried to access my site and it was closed I puzzled for a couple of minutes, realised the cause, and decided now is the perfect time to move. I could afford to do so right now, but I don't want to leave my bank account low with other things possibly coming out in the meantime. I'll have more money on Tuesday and then I'll pay for an account at http://crazydomains.com.au for 10 years. That's roughly just 1.5 years of what I was paying at GoDaddy.com, while giving me far more space and some other other advantages. When the introductory (bait) price goes up to the standard price after 10 years, the yearly price will still be less than half what I've been paying at GoDaddy.

[greylock]

I've heard bad things about GoDaddy. I can't remember what, it could be anything from sexist advertising (ala American Apparel) to corporate malfeasance, but I have seen it a few times or more over the years on Slashdot. So, there's that.

[miriam_e]

The sexist advertising has been so for ages, yes. Somehow that never really bothered me too much. They sponsored strong, sexy women such as racing car drivers. Corporate malfeasance, I would not be surprised by. Hmmm...
http://www.bytestudios.com/blog/post/bad-registrar-/
I didn't know they were in favor of internet censorship and killing elephants. I always had the nagging feeling there was something not quite right about GoDaddy. They seem to host a lot of spammers and scammers, though that may be simply because they used to have very low prices compared to other hosters.

[greylock]

The elephant killing thing is probably the most recent thing, and I completelt forgot it.

[miriam_e]

Hmmm... I just did a search for problems with CrazyDomains and they have a bad record for being unhelpful to their customers. One case was a person who had their domain name stolen and they were asking CrazyDomains to contact the company the domain name was now (wrongly) registered through, but CrazyDomains refused to help in any way. Another case was of an elderly person being duped into buying a service they didn't need. Instead of coming to an agreement to fix the error they stonewalled with what seems to be their motto "There's nothing we can do." This is a bit worrying.

Maybe I should look for a better host in case I actually need some customer support at some point.