Considering Moving My Accounts

[Greybro]

You know, there are a lot of good points made about how cheap Aletia is and what not.

But, here's the rub for me personally. Scorpion has had loads of trouble for some time now. My Art community, Poser City would regularly be down every 3 days or so. Then eventually the outages became daily at peakhours.

It just felt like the server was overloaded. I complained, opened trouble tickets etc, and finally got Ron to agreed to move it. Now the fact that Ron has been covered up of late is not lost on me. But, I have been asking for this service for at least 6 weeks and was promised it would be done

Guess what. It never got moved. Prior to the hardware failure on Scorpion I occupied 186MB of my space. Now, that is has been moved to another server, I can see I am using 3MB of it. WTF? My files are gone baby! And I don't relish the thought of digging 1200 sets of user info out of my database.

So, in summation, to my way of thinking, the ball has really been dropped here, big time! It wasn't dropped be me. So, as far as all the bitching in the "Feedback" forum goes, I say that Aletia has some of that coming and rightly so, IMHO!

Maybe if you guys had just lost 6 months of the dilligent effort of you and many of your friends too, you'd be more apt to complain.

As for me, my personal site, which isn't all that critical, can stay. But, I'll definitely be requesting a refund for my space (for the remainder of my prepaid period) that was on Scorpion and moving my business site to a more supportive host.


Regards,
Brent Bowers:cold:

[tekygonnabe]

Brent,

As a casual onlooker, I have a question for you!

Do you mean to say that you dont make a habit of preforming your own backups?

I know it seems to be a totally non-essential thing for a webmaster, of any level, to do! On the other hand it should be a part of their regular routine!!!

Why leave such things that we feel crutial to our net existance, to a 10 dollar webhost? That just dont wash at all, guy!

This is NOT meant as a flame Brent.

[gaspain]

There's always those that must come around to rub salt into someone's wounds. ALWAYS!

[tekygonnabe]

Originally posted by gaspain
There's always those that must come around to rub salt into someone's wounds. ALWAYS!

Look DUDE!

You have certainly added more than your fair share of salt to the situation at hand.... this will be eveident by the lack of help you are apt to recieve here

MY QUESTION, happens to be a legitimate one, and if you dont care about that... or disagree that it is, then so be it! It really dont matter, and certainly wasnt directed at you... though your response leads me to think you are one of those that COUNT on someone doing your work for you.

Either move on, or get along.... its simple!

You title is almost exactly right on the money!

[gaspain]

My tekywannabe, aren't you a bit upset. I must have hit a nerve. I certainly couldn't agree with you more that I should be moving on. In fact I signed up with a new host yesterday. Just waiting for the DNS changes.

Now you go have a great evening and try to remain calm, for your health's sake.

[tekygonnabe]

Upset? You would be incorrect again!
Just frustrated that some people expect the service of a god, when we are all mere peasants!

What bites more than anything is you know I am right!

With that said, you feel free to rebut this again and again. We will just continue to watch in amazement at how one individual can stoop to new lows.

[Greybro]

Originally posted by tekygonnabe
Brent,

As a casual onlooker, I have a question for you!

Do you mean to say that you dont make a habit of preforming your own backups?

I know it seems to be a totally non-essential thing for a webmaster, of any level, to do! On the other hand it should be a part of their regular routine!!!

Why leave such things that we feel crutial to our net existance, to a 10 dollar webhost? That just dont wash at all, guy!

This is NOT meant as a flame Brent.

Ok, Steve. I'm not taking this as a flame. But, I just wanted to clarify my earlier post.

Yes, of course I make the backups of my own site as well. Only in this instance it's a postnuke site several versions back from the recent one. So, a simple uploading of my files won't solve anything. It's gonna be a nightmare of configuration. I had 3 subdomians with sites on them as well.

I had complained to Ron numerous times about my feeling that Scorpion was overloaded and not performing to my expectations. After initially denying it was overloaded, he eventually agreed to move me.

That was weeks ago. I only expect people to do what they say they will. so, yes. I'm a bit cheesed off that I wouldn't have been left out in the cold and lost all our contest entries if Ron had simply executed what he agreed to do. Wouldn't you be abit out of sorts if you were in my shoes?

Regards,
Brent
http://www.brentbowers.com

[tekygonnabe]

Brent... first off, Thanks for not taking my question out of context.

I regret to say what you speak of with the older version of nuke you use, I have no knowledge of the level of difficulty in preforming such task.

As for the rest of your verbal rantage (in a very nice way) I would absolutely agree with that!
I would be a bit cheesed too.

And I am dreading the day of testing... when it will surely happen to my site/s

I appreciate your cander, Brent.

Good Luck with your situation!

[lookout]

C'mon T. and G. Pleeease sit back and count to 10 before posting your exchanges. No need to start rummaging about for your flamethrowers. Try looking at your posts as if others will be reading them.

Tekygonnabe, you have a valid point on the backups, but judging from your original post's flaming disclaimer, you realize that no one *ever* likes to hear that kind of stuff. Gaspain merely pointed this out with his reply, which no doubt was less than well received. I don't think he meant it as anything more than a little rebuff though.

Gaspain, I wish you success with your new host. I know a lot of us having been contemplating this kind of action ourselves, especially those of us have been "lucky" enough to have been hosted on Scorpion and Puma. I had been moved from one to the other last Fall, so I feel doubly blessed. I'm still hopeful things will work out though. If you're willing, please report back in a month or two on your experiences with your new host. Best of luck to you out there.

[lookout]

Brent,

I'd be plenty cheesed too. When I requested my move last Fall as Scorpion got worse and worse, Aletia was very quick to accommodate me. Guess they've had their hands full in recent weeks/months, and their new ticket system surely must have exacerbated things.

Hope you have opened up a ticket on this matter. It's possible Aletia may have a more recent backup stored somewhere.

At one time or another, it seems we all must pay a visit to Computer Hell. I think I have condo there myself.

[tekygonnabe]

Originally posted by lookout
Tekygonnabe, you have a valid point on the backups, but judging from your original post's flaming disclaimer, you realize that no one *ever* likes to hear that kind of stuff. Gaspain merely pointed this out with his reply, which no doubt was less than well received. I don't think he meant it as anything more than a little rebuff though.

Lookout,

I understand what you are telling me. And certainly my reply back to gaspain may be construed out of line.
To be very frank about it, I had gotten to the point of not even reading a thread if his name was shown as last poster.
Why, you ask? I dont think I have to elaborate on that!

Brent on the other hand, had a very well written explanation of his problem, my question to him was perhaps more from ignorance of specific things!
Where mere backups arent going solve his delimma.

So I am even more confused about it now, moreso than before...
Is it because an old version of PN?
Why does this effect a backup, and cause it to be inoperable??? ughhhhh

Let me say this, though. I posses the reduntant ability of not saying things in a proficient manner. That is the only reason I inserted the *no flame portion*
In the hope of NOBODY taking offense... guess you cant please em all, hey? (I tried)

(I am working on this)

This causes a lot of conufusion as to what exactly I had meant to say... this is frustrating in-of-itself to me!!! (and everyone else, I know!)

Perhaps that Speech Class, is in order ASAP

[lookout]

Your OK in my book Tekygonnabe. Old Abe Lincoln said it best.

Not sure myself about why restoring from a recent backup wouldn't work for Brent, but then I'm not familiar with how postnuke sites work. Maybe he means his sites work off progressive builds or something. At any rate, it doesn't sound like his offsite backups will be much help. Ouch. My condolences.

[tekygonnabe]

Thanks Lookout... you are certainly OK in my book, too.

What little I know of Portals/CMS software is they are releasing updates and bug fixes constantly... other than that I can really tear up a good script, just wind up with a lot of excess parts and pieces. (go figure)

It must be off the charts if you, yourself aren't aware of the nature of this problem. Judging from your savvy talk of COMS / Servers...
Dont think I am not reading those carefully...

[lookout]

It must be off the charts if you, yourself aren't aware of the nature of this problem. Judging from your savvy talk of COMS / Servers...

Not really. Even seasoned I.S/I.T. people can't be experts at everything in their field, and we all have to specialize to a large extent. Just too much stuff out there to learn to stay on top of it all, and it's constantly changing to boot. I know plenty of network engineers and system administators who only have peripheral knowledge of the popular software their clients actually use. Problem solving and troubleshooting skills are all one can draw on sometimes.

Dont think I am not reading those carefully...

I'll bet you are.

Frankly, I've been surprised some of my posts haven't unintentionally sent someone into orbit yet, ranting about how wrong I am on one thing or another (wouldn't be the first time that's true!) Anyway, I'm just trying to help out if I think I can, like you. I'll rely on the others here to set things right if I'm totally wrong or misguided on something, as they no doubt will do.

Gotta keep the old ego in check! :weyes: