Hallelujah! I have seen a miracle with my own eyes! >;o)

Yesterday, early in the afternoon, I had my last communication with the techs at ACE.NET. We had been going back and forth by email and phone for more than a day. In the last communication, they made it clear to me that they weren’t going to do anything to help. They claimed that although they knew that their server upgrade caused the problems, that there was really nothing they could do to help me. There was a never a “we’re sorry we’ve inadvertently cause you these problems”, or anything even remotely similar. I was on my own, and facing the prospect of trying to find and customize a new template – something that I really don’t have the time to do right now.

There was nothing for it but to simply try to not think about it until I had more time.

A bit earlier today, I got two comments from some very dear friends – PK and Shelly. Both of the comments seemed to indicate that my blog was “looking better.” Bemused, I came to take a peek – and there it was! The template was BACK! YES!

It must certainly be an act of the Powers that Be, right? Of course, it wasn’t me, since I didn’t have time to deal with it, and it couldn’t very well be those nice people at ACE.NET who left me out to dry, especially since they told me less than 24 hours before that there absolutely nothing they could do! Ayuh! I’ve done seen a miracle! My blog is HEALED!

*cough*

Ya never know what tomorrow will bring … ;o)

Yes, my blog is now standing here, butt naked, with no nice template to hide behind. ACE NET, the company hosting my account, did something to their servers a few days ago, and yesterday I discovered that all of the blogs in my domain were unreachable. A technician got them all back up for me during the night – except for this one. Wouldn’t you know it. *sigh*

I’ve written to them and am asking them to finish cleaning things up, because it has something to do with their servers … and short of starting from scratch with an entirely new template, nothing that I can fix at my end. We’ll see if they make things right, or if they just intend to blithely make changes that mess up their client’s accounts, and leave them that way to flounder on their own.

All of the Blogsplot.net domain will be down for about 1/2 hour on Thursday, June 29, at 9 PM eastern time.

We’re hoping that the promised 1/2 hour actually covers it. The last time these jokers went down for maintenance, I lost everything but my mySQL databases.

So … hang on tight! Hopefully we’ll be back online by 9:30 PM eastern time.

Acenet is moving my Blogsplot.net domain to a new server because of the ongoing issues with the server they’ve been hosting us on. When they’re done, I’ll change the DNS numbers, and it will take up to 3 days for the new DNS to disseminate across the internet. Some of you will see the site right away … and others could take a few days.

We’re not gone … just moving to a better server (I hope! ;o)

See you all on the other side …

All of the Blogsplot.net blogs have been up and down more than a Yo-Yo in the last week or so.

I’ve been in touch with Acenet.net, which is where we have our domain hosted. It appears that they discovered that someone on the same physical server as Blogsplot.net was abusing it somehow. They told me that they thought that removing the abusive account from the server would clear the problem up.

… I hope so! It’s a HUGE pain in the (_|_) to move to a different server. ;o)

While we’re at it … if any of you have tried to be in touch with Dr. Engel and not received a reply – he’s OK, but his internet connection isn’t. He’s been offline for nearly two weeks now, and is one very frustrated gentleman. I believe he’s going to try to connect through a different company. I don’t envy him. That’s a royal pain in the aforementioned area too.

But anyway – we’re back. Hopefully. *crosses fingers* Maybe someday I’ll be rich and famous, and I’ll be able to have my own server … but until that happens, shared hosting is where it’s at. Hey! At least it’s not Blo … oops … I almost said that out loud! *cough*