When dream hosts become nightmares

August 15, 2007

If you can read this, count yourself lucky. I’ve had an extraordinary run of trouble with my web hosting service this last week including two their-fault configuration problems that disabled Thudfactor and two their-fault hardware problems (apparently) that made large portions of their server farms hideously slow or unreachable. I’m particularly irritated since one of the config issues manifested in the middle of a traffic spike caused when the NY Times Blog The Lede linked to my mine story. And the last two days of server-explodey happened just as my World of Warcraft post was getting decent traffic from StumbleUpon.

Now that I’m actually trying to drive traffic to the site, these kinds of wasted opportunities really get up my nose. We’re not talking Digg-level traffic, but it’s a lot of traffic for me and I’m irritated that so much of it went into the Black Hole of the Intertubes. Grr.

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