indiboi.com

Wednesday morning I accidentally left my phone/pager in the office. I figured that things have been going fine and didn’t worry too much about it. Early that morning I had a pounding on the bedroom door… server went haywire.

It was because of one person’s installation of Movable Type.

It was that same person’s installation of Movable Type that was causing so many problems before. Somehow they fixed it, but only temporarily it seems.

I didn’t forget my phone/pager the next morning, and sure enough around the exact same time of the butt crack of morning it went off, and wouldn’t you know it? It was that same website being cunty for the 101st freakin’ time.

Somehow, by the grace of the gods of internet, there wasn’t some major catastrophe to pull me out of my lovely slumber Friday morning. I almost pissed myself that things didn’t go nutty while I was getting much, much needed sleep.

I finally get around to being almost asleep this morning and ‘ding-dong’ and it was a page from the monitoring service. It was that muther-fucking Movable Type website AGAIN. I haul my weary ass up to the office, I think I get it solved and head back to bed. I’m finally almost comfortable again and then… ‘ding-dong’ …yet again.

Positive Fusion is absolutely excellent hosting. Problems are not at all common, and when they are it’s almost always the fault of someone’s perhaps poorly written or otherwise malfunctioning Perl script - it gets fixed and all is well with the world again.

Movable Type might be fine and good on its own, I don’t personally believe that, but the problem is exponentially compounded by the ability to insert plugins/modules/hacks/etc not always written by the best of the best Perl scripters. It, like so many other things, can quickly turn into a disaster when ignorance and technology blend together.

It’s all the more frustrating when the webhost is blamed for the user’s fuckup. Don’t say that Positive Fusion abhors PHP or can’t process PHP when you’re too incapable of writing it or setting it up properly. Positive Fusion has long been advocating the use of PHP alternatives to Perl applications. The PF website has some rather interesting, perhaps even sophisticated, PHP programming… the entire thing would cease to function if we ‘hated PHP with a passion’ as accused. Holy shit, this indiboi.com is entirely driven by PHP! …and it’s hosted by Positive Fusion! Oh Martha, bring me the smelling salts, I’m getting the vapors!

I don’t want to terminate accounts, it’s rather against my own best interests financially speaking. Of course, when that one account doesn’t truly net all that much income-wise is then continually threatening every other account because it is running software so devastatingly bad as to overwhelm the entire server, I have to put an end to it.

It doesn’t help that the company is being berated on the very same website causing repeated problems for every single other website hosted!