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Site5 is Run By Children

Yesterday, MySQL on the server I host on at Site5 crashed and accordingly rendered this, and several other of my sites useless. I noticed this at about 9am UK time and very promptly logged a service ticket to get this rectified. I waited and waited and waited, and eventually turned to using the forums to see if anyone else was noticing this, and also because the Site5 personal seem to monitor this more closely than their own service ticket system.  Continue reading ►

Outage This Morning

Lets just say, I'm pissed with Site5 support, or lack there of, today.At about 8:45 this morning, I was attempting to work out why the performance on my sites has been shite recently (looks like I'm not the only one experiencing the issue) when the MySQL database keeled over.I normally consider myself quite patient, so I gave it 15 minutes for the problem to be noticed and rectified - I mean, if you're offering a hosting service, surely you're actually monitoring all the services, and not just providing a pretty page to keep users happy.Well, I was wrong...  Continue reading ►

Bloglines Plumber

Just my luck, the weekend I'm working, Bloglines decide they can't keep the damn site up for any reasonable amount of time. Come on Bloglines, fire your plumber and get some decent redundancy in place. May I suggest a cluster of Sun Fire T2000's - you can try before you buy too.
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