Robin's new site
Some more about Robin’s site. Some fucker had their eyes on Robin’s domain name and had registered with a site that grabs names to order. This meant that the moment that her domain became available, the bastards snapped it up and resold it to whoever. Now they have a frigging link farm on it! This has been a shitty business all round and my last words on the subject are:
FUCK UKREG.COM and POOL.COM !
A new domain has taken up residence with our others. Redheadedgoddess.com will be her new home. The site needs content, design etc, but Textpattern, Photostack and Mint are all installed and working.
A couple of weeks ago I had the dubious pleasure of dealing with a client’s webhost. I needed to set up a MySQL database for their new site. It took nearly 24 hours for the damn database to be accessible. Compare that to this: I registered the new domain on my account with Gandi. I then set up a virtual server, complete with a MySQL database on my account here on Textdrive. I went back to Gandi and found the domain was ready for me to add the dns settings which I did. I installed Textpattern, Photostack and Mint, by which time the new domain had propogated so that we could see it live. All this took less than an hour!
Thank you to the folks at both Textdrive and Gandi. It is a pleasure to deal with professionals and a shame that they are so rare on this web of ours.