New server—Spent about an hour moving files to a new server. Earlier this week when I received a bill from my ISP for a year's worth of hosting for restondigital.com, I pondered why I still only had the same measly 20MB of storage that I had three or so years ago. I'm paying the same price, $27/mon, and yet the cost of storage has plummeted. Upon asking I was told that yes, if I got the Bronze account I could get 175MB of storage for the same price, but since I have an old account, I only got 20MB. “Oh, you would like to change accounts? Well, it will require moving to a new server. We'll gladly charge you $50 to transfer all of your files”.

I shouldn't complain. I've had the same ISP for over 5 years, and they answer my calls every time. They answer email within minutes. I switched accounts, hence the need to transfer files. Then I discovered that the server-side includes that I use in many pages did not work after the switch. After I complained, they started working, but only because I was switched back to the old server. I'm sure it will all be worked out, but now I'm posting files to two servers.
posted by Bruce Wright at 10:54 PM #