Yes, I’ve changed to a new ISP, and I haven’t figured out how to restore my blog from the downloaded database. In fact, it appears that the MySql versions from the two ISPs may not be compatible, and I may not be able to do the restore at all. Meanwhile, I’m just trying to get the site back up. More to come.
By the way, if you’re looking for an ISP, globat.com lost all of my data once and several directories another time, in the space of a single year. Their tech support people don’t appear to speak English very well (at least, the communications I’ve had from them have been often incomprehensible). Response time to email questions, etc. can be several days. And, they managed to let someone hack my site and use it for phishing, then blamed me and suspended the domain. On the other hand, they provide lots of storage space for cheap. Your call.
Meanwhile, I’m now on vervehosting.com. My first support interaction with them was when I found I couldn’t reset the nameservers at my old ISP. Time between my email and their response saying they had reset them for me: 37 minutes.
I use Verve as well. Your lovely daughter suggested them when I was shopping around for a host after I outgrew the free web space Earthlink gives me. I got my domain and site set up with ease.
And then I never used it.
I don’t blame Verve for that. They’ve been really good.
I told you their tech support was fast.
Yep, I owe it all to Cabell.
Cabell also enlightened me to the ways of Verve Hosting.
Weird, this is an old entry but for some reason it showed up on my LJ RSS feed. A lot of my feeds have been behaving strangely today.