Shakey Datahive.ca
Another large earthquake in our area last night, the second in less than a week and close to the same area as well. Not quite close enough to Vancouver for major damage, but high-rise buildings were reported to have swayed for about 20 seconds.
Some kind of earthquake is happening at the datacentre that hosts our web sites as well. In the past couple weeks there have been two outages with no explanation or even a reply sent to their support desk, one of them was a DNS problem that lasted almost 24 hours which was totally avoidable and unacceptable. Now today there’s a third outage, at least this time they answered their phone and said it would be fixed in five minutes and they would call me back. And if you believe that I have a bridge to sell you….
Completely unacceptable for a web service that should have 99.9% uptime, especially when the problems are their own fault and not outside influences. In that light, I’ve decided to change the datacentre and am moving to The Planet in Dallas, Texas. The intermediary will be Hostgator.com out of Florida, they seem to be in the top four of all the forums and reviews I’ve seen out there and are running C-Panel instead of H-Sphere which will allow me to do some reselling myself.
Three hours later and they finally have the web server running. Mail server is still down though if you try to connect with a POP3 service which is what everyone uses. Looks like they lost a bunch of mail too as logging in to the server over http shows nothing in the Inbox, not even spam and that is definitely not a good thing. Will be glad to dump who ever the bums are that Travis Bell and Scott King sold their company to as soon as my money gets to Florida.