Thursday, August 03, 2006
If you are reading this, the storm has passed, so to speak.
Erika told me soon after I got back from work that her email was down, and that the captmondo.com Web site was down too. So I went online to see what was up. I then discovered that WebRaided's (my Web hosting firm) Web site was also down. Odd. Must be a bad problem if their own Web site is down. So I Google-d for their main telephone line, and gave them a call, expecting to hear an automated message saying when they expect to be back up.
Instead, I got a message saying that the number has been disconnected and was no longer in service.
Uh oh....
So WebRaided appears to be dead. I check my previous emails but there was nothing there saying that this might happen (but my over-eager spam filters might have disposed of any such messages, and I had cleaned out my junk email folder late last week). So I am without a host for several Web sites: captmondo.com, frantics.org, and magicomusic.com (the last I run for a friend of Erika's). More important than my blog or the other sites is the fact that Erika's email is down, which she uses for her work.
The last site I set up, chateauvolterra.com, is hosted by BlueHost Web hosting in the States. I went with them when WebRaided said that they were unable to handle a simple domain transfer. So I went online and bought a year's Web space for captmondo.com, and went digging through my emails to figure out who I had registered the domain name with so that I could transfer it properly.
I also picked up esrproductionsound.com for Erika, since she really ought to have a promotional Web site for her business, along with a more business-sounding email address.
I am hoping I will be able to transfer the frantics.org and magicomusic.com sites to subdirectories of the main Web sites I now have with BlueHost.
I had been planning to work on the chateauvolterra.com site over the long weekend. Guess I'll be doing a lot more Web Admin work than I had originally planned...
Labels: BlueHost, captmondo.com, chateauvolterra.com, esrproductionsound.com, frantics.org, magicomusic.com, WebRaided
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