I'm back and why pghoster sucks
by Josh Staiger
Ok, so here's the deal. My old hosting company: pghoster.com majorly, majorly sucks. Over the past year that I've used them, their uptime hasn't exactly been stellar and their service offerings and willingness to respond to my emails have steadily gotten worse as time has gone on.
Around the end of July (right on my Birthday, actually, when I had meant to post a lengthy entry here reflecting on the past year), not only did my site go down, but when I tried to visit pghoster.com to figure out what was going on, I got one of those domain parking pages. I was not amused, and became even less so after receiving a bounce back from the pghoster.com support address. After that, I became downright pissed after sending three emails to the owner of pghoster.com with no response (I still have not received a response to this day).
My site finally came back up one day before I was supposed to leave for my vacation in Florida, but by that point, I had had enough. As soon as I noticed that joshstaiger.org was back, I downloaded all the content off my site and sent a cancellation notice to pghoster (which, of course, I have not received a response to - we shall see on my next credit card statement whether or not I will have to call Visa and tell them to withhold payment).
My site now resides at Dreamhost, and so far I have been quite happy. I'm still in the process of transferring some things like pictures over and getting my Movable Type templates and stylesheets squared away, but I'm mostly back - finally!
Pghoster - good riddance!!!
Some site news:
- For those of you who I had mentioned "lending" webspace to (Amy Chan, Anders...), I now have more than enough, so let me know.
- I'm leaving comments off for now because apparently MT Blacklist isn't compatible with Movable Type 3.0, and I had enough problems with comment spam even when I had MT Blacklist installed! Ugh. One of these days I would like to try my hand at implementing a Bayesian filtering system for Movable Type. We'll see if I can come up with a makeshift solution in the meantime. Will keep y'all posted.
Coming Soon:
- Photo gallery (hopefully!)
- Lots of entries about what I've been up to over the past month or so (hopefully!)