spacetropic

saturnine, center-right, sometimes neighborly

November 9, 2006

Under Construction (Vizaweb Meltdown)

Sorry folks, MAJOR technical difficulties lately.

My web hosting provider, Vizaweb, has apparently destroyed itself in one final, spectacular act of incompetence. No response to support emails, and most impressively, their own website is unavailable. I'd call the phone number, but every time I've ever called I've gotten voicemail and a full message box. The owner, Rick Mueller, always sent lovely, thoughtful emails explaining different outages and failures. Wonder what he's up to these days?

So I had to switch everything over to a new hosting provider, Lunarpages. I've done some research on this company and I think this should be a good move. Things may be a little rocky for the next few days, but there should be no more complete absence or file not found errors. Thank you for you patience.

Update: I see people hitting this site searching on 'VizaWeb'. Apparently I am one of the first people to get clear of the wreckage and make it to a new hosting provider. The rest of you - it's over. VizaWeb is a nightmare. I pray you made backups.

Update 2: My new hosting plan name servers are still "propagating" throughout the Internet, so if you're viewing this you're in the lucky half. I can't even see it from my ISP yet (but I can preview it on Blogger and update posts).