Back once again
So it has been a bit now since our last post. Sorry for that. No we have not died but one could surely have wondered. Things have been very hectic with the hosting issues and all. We have in fact moved from our old host. Now we host ourselves through our other website “NutsNBytes”.
Although Asylum ET is still in a shared hosting environment we have a few serious advantages here. The main advantage being that we control the host. With the ability to control the host we have set guidelines for our server that we will not change. Previously Asylum-ET was hosted in a shared environment with sum 250+ other websites running along side it. Our traffic has hit such a peak that the host could not meet our requirements and took us off-line as we mentioned in our previous post. This is directly following payment for services for an extended period of time.
Not acceptable to us at all! So now with our own server we set the strict policy that no single server will have more than 10 websites running on it. Anything over that is viewed by us as overselling what we do not have so we have surely learned by faults of our previous host in that aspect.
Now the refund process with this previous host so far has not proved to be overly fluid. We started our refund claim on Wed, Apr 11th 2007 at 01:22. It is now the 18th and we have received notice stating our account has been refunded. So all is good right? Well maybe not. In reviewing our account there has been no refund posted yet. We contacted the bank in regards to this and they made it very clear that they run there records update every morning so if the refund posted the 17th it would have shown this morning. The account does not reflect the refund so we will give this till tomorrow before contacting the host to find out what the issue may be.
On another note in the move the website requires many changes and updates. This would not have been to great an issue but very time consuming just the same. So as we were getting into the process of the shift you could not guess what happened. I sat at my desk oblivious to the fact that there was a hurricane brewing just outside. I sat and worked intently and before I knew anything was amuck there was no power. Now trapped in complete darkness I felt around my area for about 15 minutes trying to find a lighter or anything to give me some light so I may find the exit. Well the power came back just long enough to make my way outside.
Now I am outside and if you looked directly above my house it was the most beautiful day you could imagine. Sun so bright, nice blue skies and then surrounding us on every side was almost complete darkness and absolute chaos. The trees where touching the ground from the severity of the winds. The wind at times sounded almost mechanical as if it were a huge train. This is not the type of thing we see here. Ever! It is very obvious we (earths inhabitants) are really screwing things up but that will be another post. I must make comment though about a few things that bothered me about this whole thing though.
- Total disgust at the unprepared ness of everyone including myself in this situation.
- Absolute gratitude to those who worked round the clock to restore power.
- Disgust with comments aired from callers complaining about the state and power company workers eating breakfast when they should be working. I wonder if that person eats before going to work or maybe he has found a way to eliminate the eating process?
I want to give a personal shout out to all of the folks who have come to our aid and have been working double shifts or better. Seriously we have folks that came down from Canada to help out. Thank you all. And thank God that there were no serious injuries or deaths.