OH GOD WE'RE FINALLY BACK
Updated: the gallery is now working too. Yeah!
Um, hi! Been a while, hasn't it? Yeah, about that...
Over a month ago, I purchased a new domain name to begin an expansion of the NaughtyMerrick.com website. When attempting to attach the domain to my hosting account, something went wrong on the back-end of the servers, and cPanel started spitting out error messages. Really confusing, strange error messages.
I asked Makal for help but he was stumped. I asked the guy who coordinates my hosting for help, and he was stumped. But he said he would work on it. Eventually I just went over his head with the issue and started working directly with the Lunarpages server admins. And finally, overnight, the issue was resolved. Sort of.
Of course, being corporate tech support, they feel obliged to go "above and beyond" in the name of servicing my... *ahem* issue. This means that they took completely unnecessary actions that made my job of recovering from the month of downtime that much more difficult. But hey, at least you can see this.
As it stands, galleries are down. This is because I am busy behind the scenes transferring files and rearranging permissions to point to the right subdirectories. Technical jargon, mumbo-jumbo, all that jazz. I'm working on it, and it's getting fixed--hopefully that's all you need to know.
You know, guys, I am really, truly, really fucking sorry about this last batch of downtime. Wish I could relay in polite terms how frustrating it's been for me. I hate waiting for other people to fulfill their obligations so that I can fulfill my own. I hate being let down when I give people the benefit of the doubt. And I strongly dislike tech support (except Makal, of course). Through all of this I was considering switching to yet another host but god, that'd be what, 3 hosts this year? At the least. And another week of setting up databases to make everything work right. At least this time I knew that my data wasn't lost, and thus I never gave up hope. Sorry for this being such a pain.
On the upside, now that NaughtyMerrick.com is back online, I can start back down the road of progress. Woo, progress! Like I said, I've got some expanding to do... but before I even revisit the HTML I've had sitting in the wings I am diving head on into the Gallery issues. And I'm gonna kick their butt.
Oh, and be aware: after months of speculation and hazy memory, I've started to get previews from the shoot with TwistedMonk back in August. And oh. my fucking. gawd. Y'all are gonna flip over this shoot. ;D Soon my pretties, soon!
Um, hi! Been a while, hasn't it? Yeah, about that...
Over a month ago, I purchased a new domain name to begin an expansion of the NaughtyMerrick.com website. When attempting to attach the domain to my hosting account, something went wrong on the back-end of the servers, and cPanel started spitting out error messages. Really confusing, strange error messages.
I asked Makal for help but he was stumped. I asked the guy who coordinates my hosting for help, and he was stumped. But he said he would work on it. Eventually I just went over his head with the issue and started working directly with the Lunarpages server admins. And finally, overnight, the issue was resolved. Sort of.
Of course, being corporate tech support, they feel obliged to go "above and beyond" in the name of servicing my... *ahem* issue. This means that they took completely unnecessary actions that made my job of recovering from the month of downtime that much more difficult. But hey, at least you can see this.
As it stands, galleries are down. This is because I am busy behind the scenes transferring files and rearranging permissions to point to the right subdirectories. Technical jargon, mumbo-jumbo, all that jazz. I'm working on it, and it's getting fixed--hopefully that's all you need to know.
You know, guys, I am really, truly, really fucking sorry about this last batch of downtime. Wish I could relay in polite terms how frustrating it's been for me. I hate waiting for other people to fulfill their obligations so that I can fulfill my own. I hate being let down when I give people the benefit of the doubt. And I strongly dislike tech support (except Makal, of course). Through all of this I was considering switching to yet another host but god, that'd be what, 3 hosts this year? At the least. And another week of setting up databases to make everything work right. At least this time I knew that my data wasn't lost, and thus I never gave up hope. Sorry for this being such a pain.
On the upside, now that NaughtyMerrick.com is back online, I can start back down the road of progress. Woo, progress! Like I said, I've got some expanding to do... but before I even revisit the HTML I've had sitting in the wings I am diving head on into the Gallery issues. And I'm gonna kick their butt.
Oh, and be aware: after months of speculation and hazy memory, I've started to get previews from the shoot with TwistedMonk back in August. And oh. my fucking. gawd. Y'all are gonna flip over this shoot. ;D Soon my pretties, soon!
