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My hosting account with Site5 is on their ‘orestes‘ server, and it has experience so much downtime over the last month or two - and I’m very unimpressed. It’s hardly the 99.9% uptime that they advertise, and as for their knowledgeable technical support team - I really beg to differ.

After telling them (at length) about how dissatisfied I was with the service I was getting and that I was not really getting any value for money, I requested to be moved to another server (such as the one which has over 550+ days of uptime). My response, although fast, was pathetic:

Unfortunately we are unable to move you to another server at this time as all moves are suspended during our migration to the planet.

Yeah, thanks for your help. Thanks for the apology. Thanks for the percentage refund due to the downtime I’ve experienced. I feel it should be offered, but alas, I’ve had to request it: great customer service!

I know there are many people out there who rave about Site5, their fantastic support and all they have to offer. I really am not happy right now, particularly when I read articles like Nan’s: Site5 deleted a whole bunch of her database entries. 

I’ve been with so many hosting companies over the last couple of years. AN Hosting, otherwise known as MidPhase Hosting, has still been by far the best. Regretting the move, and kind of questioning why I ever left!

EDIT: Just got a response from a rep called Jessica who was really nice and gave me the response I was after. She gave me a credit, and although I don’t plan to use it, she was sincere, apologetic and polite: all I expected! Considering AN again and Nellie’s suggestion of buyback with Holdfire!

In order to get back my blogging mojo, I have changed domains back to the original MeatPaddy, however ‘.com’ is still not available, so you’ll have to access it via ‘.net’ or ‘.org’. And although the website looks like junk, I am still proud to say that I designed this template (minus the background) and am very happy to have finally finished it.

Although I’m late, I also wanted to wish you all a Happy New Years and a 2008 that’s good, but not as good as mine. To be honest, I think I’ve had a pretty bloody good start to the year arriving on New Years Eve in Telluride, Colorado where some family friends took me skiing for 6 days, before flying to Hawaii to bathe in the occasionally appearing sun for another 6 days.

My first night back in Sydney had me and Laura ditching our friends at the pub and heading into Kings Cross for “some quiet drinks and a bit of a dance”. $150 worth of alcohol later we ended up in Kings Cross Adult Entertainment buying vibrators, dildos, lube and bi-sexual porn. Sure, that was $90 we didn’t need to spend; but the hours of laughter we got from them made it all worthwhile. At one stage we had a cabby leave his taxi to have a ‘Dildo War’ with Laura before asking her to keep it if he took us all the way home (a fare worth at least $50).

You know you’re in for a good year when it begins with a dildo war… by the way - any new years resolutions?? I’m gonna start running again, get a new job and move out of home!