bobpeers -> blog

For the second time in only a few months my site was down for god-knows-how-long. I first noticed when my main site and blog redirected to a moving page for the server that, rather ironically, returns a 404, page not found error.

It didn’t take me long to ftp to my site and look at the htaccess file to see that someone had added a line at the bottom to redirect all traffic to the page mentioned above. I removed the line and sure enough my site was still there, however after contacting support (who initially told me that they had not added the offending line!) it turns out that my server was moved to a new IP address.

This just required me to change my a records at my nameserver (I use Zoneedit and highly recommend them) and in a few minutes I could access the new server. More annoying was that I has not received any notification of the move, plus I had posted a new blog post but to the old server so I had to manually rewrite the entry since I could no no longer access the old server (Googles cache helps a lot in these situations).

I pay very little for my hosting so I cannot complain too much, however it is making me wonder if I should pay more to move hosts to a more reliable outfit (maybe Dreamhost).