w00t - I'm back
Yay, joy to The Nexus (my current hosting company).
After downgrading to an insecure and old featured version of PHP my site broke. They have upgraded in a record time of 6 months. This is all part of changing their servers and stuff. Of course, I am still paying something like £160/year for this professional package. In the past 6 months the "new improved" servers have had these features removed:
# PHP 4.3 -> PHP 4.0 (then back to 4.3 the other day)
# No more SSH support for clients
# Changed all e-mail logins (without telling)
# Changed internal directory structure, twice.
# Removed SSL certificates and no longer offer
# Removed public FTP access and deleted all files on FTP without informing clients.
I am currently trying to shift my domain for obvious reasons, but alas the window they gave me to move it was over Christmas, when everybody was closed, so it didn't happen, and I have yet to receive a new one.
So anyway, what else has happened in my life? I've got a new job, really enjoyed it, and now I hate it. Pay is lowest national average for what I do, yet I live in the second most expensive city in the country. I have to work over-time just to keep my work at a sane level.
Management has got a priority problem and has decided everything is first priority, effectively removing our ability to prioritise anything (if everything is 1st, what's can we de-prioritise?).
And to top it off, it's a nice open-plan office, meaning viruses spread like butter in hell. Naturally, you don't get paid for being ill, unless it's more than a week and then it's only statutary sick-pay which would just about pay for the bus fair into town.
So yeah, life is good.