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2005-10-31 20:13
by Ken Arneson

Well, this was certainly the straw that broke the camel's back.

I have an opportunity lined up that might allow baseballtoaster.com to be hosted for free at a well-regarded ISP, but that process will take a month or two more to play out. I had been hoping to avoid switching ISPs more than once, because it's a time consuming process to move all the data and load and install all the software.

But today's four-hour outage was just intolerable. I'm just gonna have to move everything twice, because I can't stand another day with this utterly incompetent ISP. And that's saying a lot about how frustrated I am, because I'm impossibly busy this week, and I don't really have the time to do this. But I'm gonna do it anyway.

I've been a systems administrator, and I can understand and appreciate hardware failures and router problems and such. But today's outage was because...wait for it...the ISP's Virtuozzo software licenses expired. Really.

So as soon as the new ISP has me all set up, I'll start moving everything over to the new server.

Sorry again for the trouble.

Comments
2005-10-31 21:46:17
1.   bokonon42
Maybe not the best time to say so, but that's really funny.
2005-11-01 07:21:07
2.   DXMachina
Damn, that sucks. I know the pain of dealing with incompetents.

Thanks for all the effort you put into this site.

2005-11-03 12:47:20
3.   Bob Timmermann
And did the story have a happy ending?

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