Technical Difficulties

miscellaneous | UltraRob | Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 at 8:07 pm

I wish this was an April Fools joke but it’s not. A couple days ago the hard drive on my desktop computer died. The computer isn’t much over 4 months old. I doubt that the hard drive was poor quality but one of the tiny fraction that fail early for some unknown reason.

Dell shipped out a new hard drive yesterday and I was supposed to get it today. They called to make sure I had gotten it but I didn’t. The address they say they shipped it to is my home address but somebody at my old job signed for it. I’ll have to get it track it down in the morning.

So how does this affect this website? The computer that went down is the one that runs scripts a couple times a day to update the products and prices of the cycling and outdoor gear search. Hopefully I’ll have it updating again tomorrow. I guess I need to set up a 2nd system to handle problems in the future. I think it would stress my current laptop so I may need to look at something else.

Another technical issue I’ve been having is the pages on this site are intermittently loading very slow. I’ve contacted my hosting company, GoDaddy, a couple times and they’ve been less than helpful. I’ve heard several bad things about their hosting from others. They say they can’t do anything unless they see it happening even though I have monitoring logs that show the problem about once an hour.

I’ve gotten a few suggestion on good hosting providers and have been researching them. If you have any other suggestions, please let me know. Once I get my main computer back up and running, I want to get this site moved to somewhere reliable.

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