As I previously mentioned, I decided to migrate into a Linux based host, for the obvious reasons (stability, flexibility, etc) Usually you get more for less in Linux, and that counts when it comes to Hosting… However, since I got this service, I’ve only been able to “use” it once or twice, reason being they first had a major carrier issue that lead all of their websites, including their own, to be offline for 8 hours, yes, eight hours!… After 24 hours, Some magic spell was cast on the server I’m hosting at, since both hard drives failed miserably (at least, that’s what they say “RAID failure”; I say they don’t even use RAID to save $$$)…
12 hours after this, they finally got the server up; But all the data was gone… I kindly insulted them for a while and then decided to upload a full backup I had just generated hours before the crash. Why, why did I upload the backup?, now my panel account was ruined and PHP wasn’t even working! – Great Service! – So I had to report this, another 3 hours are gone until they answer, fixing the account; so I get to upload once again the full backup, to find myself in the same situation – deja vu! – … Finally, I decided to send the whole thing to them, through the “help desk” and let them handle it… I went for a nap, because quite frankly I know little to no people that can do anything without email and web service…
As a result of my heavy subconscious thoughts while asleep, the account was restored to the state of my backup and I get to at least post this through the email / cronjob service of wordpress…
What a nice company, let me tell you, you will never find so many idiots working at the same place!. It’s not my intent to talk bad about anyone hence I’m not giving out names, but it’s worth noticing that sometimes local isn’t just good, most of the times, it isn’t good at all.
And that leads me to the conclusion, that there is nothing in Argentina that makes me proud of being Argentine, nothing at all… I cannot grab something and say “Hey, we make this, and I’m damn proud of it!”… NOTHING!.
It’s sad when such a great country is lowered to the deepest of darkness because of ruthless power abusing and corrupt behavior…
I’m hoping, some day this will change… But obviously, hoping is not enough. Today it’s the hosting; but yesterday it was the power grid, whereas last day, the phone company played monkey on me… When is this country going to start behaving as such?.
I say never…