Tag: MidPhase
Preoccupied
In between changing diapers and rocking the girl to sleep and running the odd errand or rustling grub, I’m preoccupied with migrating rox.com to a new webhost. Dusting off those command-line skillz I haven’t used for a good while. So far, so good. Update: The migration was a success. I hope to write something about […]
Read More → PreoccupiedWebhosting Blues
Much to my regret, I’m shopping for a new webhost, and I could use a little advice.
Read More → Webhosting BluesCommunication Meltdown
I had planned to Twitter my daughter’s birth. It seemed like the perfect tool for giving blow-by-blow updates in real time, and it’s easy to do from my phone. Alas, it was not to be. Last week I suffered what I call a “communication meltdown,” where multiple technologies fail me at the same time, compounding […]
Read More → Communication MeltdownIncommunicado
Due to circumstances beyond my control, all rox.com e-mail is out of commission for the foreseeable future; however I do have my replacement Crackberry so you can call or txt me.
Read More → IncommunicadoDisconnected, Part III: Attack of the Spambots
After a week of delays and two whole days wasted on tech support calls, I was finally online. I was ready to write a damning invective criticizing Apple and an encomium praising the Computer Shoppe. I pointed my browser to my blog, when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a notice: Your account […]
Read More → Disconnected, Part III: Attack of the SpambotsPlaying the New Orleans Card
I made an unpleasant discovery this morning. The rox.com website was down. Looked like a problem with the database. Upon further investigation, I discovered that all the data tables were gone. The database itself was still there, but the thirty-odd data tables which it contained had vanished. Poof. Gone. I called tech support for our […]
Read More → Playing the New Orleans CardE-mailus Interruptus
Sometime over the past day or two, rox.com e-mail services became intermittent and then shut down completely. I spoke with our service provider, MidPhase, this morning, and learned the problem was related to our disc allocation being full. They upped our quota from 1.5 GB to 5 GB, no charge — guess they’ve upgraded their […]
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