Nov 24 2011

Server Downtime – Planned Maintenance

Clook are having a planned server move thingy this weekend which means my site will be unavailable from 10pm-6am GMT on the 26th November (Saturday). I have no idea what that is in foreign times, but probably smack bang in the middle of the day. My email should be fine because it’s hosted elsewhere. This … read more »

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Oct 19 2006

Are You Satisfied?

Hah.. that was the question 1and1 asked me via e-mail this morning — because I sent a support request in they wanted me to tell them how great they are. I didn’t, for the first time ever… and my problem STILL ISN’T BLOODY SOLVED. :| So much for a special offer! If they don’t fix … read more »

Oct 17 2006

Shitty Customer Service

I don’t think ‘net based companies realise how frickin’ irritating it is when they deliver really crap customer service (or in some cases, none at all!) When I’m dealing with a company for my own personal use it’s not such a big deal, but if I need support for a work client and I can’t … read more »

Sep 13 2006

Surpass Hosting Users Beware

As most of you are aware, some issues were found with some of the CodeGrrl scripts late last year and an announcement was made with the necessary fixes. Unfortunately, despite these fixes being easily and freely available people still ignored the risks (despite hundreds being exploited) or even worse: deleted the protection.php file (which had … read more »

Jul 20 2006

Why Subdomain Hosting Is Bad

As I’m browsing around various personal websites and forums I see people offering up space on their domains for those who can’t/won’t buy ‘proper’ hosting for one reason or another, and every time I see these offers I cringe. I cringe at the naivety of these trusting website owners, and at the lack of published … read more »