Buggeration

One of the other joys of moving hosting providers is when things start to go wrong For some reason, the MySQL database which was the backend of this (and I installed it myself, so I was very proud) has ceased to work - which means I’ve had to reinstall this from the archives and I’ve lost all the formatting due to the default stylesheet being blown away. Damn. I was thinking of changing the style anyway, but it wasn’t high on the list of priorities…

The other problem is that the timzilla.net domain seems to be stuck halfway through a transfer from oneandone to 123-reg, which means that all the URLs are screwed up I decided to dump oneandone as a result of their truely lousy support - never replying to emails, 10-20 minutes on hold every time you call them, the occasional arbitrary reconfiguration of DNS entries, and a refusal to do anything with the DNS once they’ve got it. The final straw was when they refused to amend an MX entry for one of my domains. Bugger that, I thought, and voted with my feet - the only problem being that voting with my feet seems to have taken rather longer than I thought it would for a .net domain. Although timzilla.net is resolving OK at the moment, I’m not holding my breath…

But apart from that, the last week’s hacking around of the getcompany website has resulted in an exponential learning curve in HTML, Photoshop and Dreamweaver. Next stop is the OS Commerce back end, which I get the feeling will prove more tricky. I’ve decided that the easiest way to automate the content side of it is to use Moveable Type (assuming that the MySQL bit works of course) because I at least know where to start with that. The tricky bit as far as I can see is going to be glueing the two systems together. The near future will involve much hacking around, I can feel it…

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