K World

My host has informed that the he is moving the server and asked me to take a complete backup. As a good boy, I did the same. But, just realized that he didn’t move the server for past 10 days and I had done couple of posts. Now, all of a sudden the old server stopped working. I’ve updated by NS entries to make my blog point to correct IP and realized that last two posts are missing in the database. Well, I found one of them on my desktop blogging tool and the Aamir’s injection is lost. Upped everything. Blog is back in action. Peace.

Old host is having issues with cPanel and Apache. cPanel is removing the entry for my domain some how from the httpd.conf file again and again. So, I moved (just the blog - karteek.selfdabba.com) to the new host.

I’m thinking about maintaining a mirror at http://karteek.mondayphobia.com which will reside on the old host. Need to take a look at xmlrpc of wordpress to do that. Guys, if you know any plugins that do mirroring, let me know before I start dirtying my hands with the code

Lessions Learnt on Day 2

1. Don’t think that you are doing good by migrating your stuff to a non-free host - there is always a chance that you can go wrong.
2. Never buy Unlimited Everything Hosting Services which come for very less price. Be practical !!!
3. Never buy anything hosting on Ebay resellers unless you know the hosting service which they are using !!!

*Sigh* I did a mistake by choosing wrong host. Looks like the down time is a lot in the current host, and started googling about the current host. I got a good number of result telling me to run away from them.

Even though, my blog wouldn’t need 99.9% uptime, it is really annoying to see website getting timed out again and again. I’m very sorry for the downtime folks. I will try to find a better option ASAP.

PS : The brighter side of the problem is that I haven’t lost anything more than my budget for watching single movie at Satyam Cinemas for this hosting service
Update: The reseller who sold me the hosting package asked me to wait for a month before moving to another host. So, I would be giving random visits to the site to check whether its up or not. And guys, please let me know if you find this down.