Hey everyone!
I’ll finally update you with what the hell is going on with my blog (other than my sloppiness). As you are aware, I had it hosted on 110mb.com, mainly because it was a free php hosting account I had registered a loong time ago… They stopped supplying databases for free and so I looked for some free mysql hosting, and ended up using freemysql.net. It worked fine for a while, until every sort of trouble started happening. freemysql.net lost my database once during whatever maintenance, and I didn’t make any backups, but I was too busy at the moment to do anything else than start over again. So I did start over again… Meanwhile I had decided that I didn’t need a database and started trying to do a static website with comments via disqus. I was testing it at my former subdomain in 110mb.com, in a different directory, so I kept both the blogs running during development. Then before I was finished with it, freemysql.net stopped working again… and to make matters worse, 110mb started an advertisement program in their 404 error pages which led to a naked wrestling website (nwwl.com). Seriously now, wtf?
I decided I had enough, and started arranging the details here at dreamhost and moving stuff around. Meanwhile I temporarily put my beta website, without comments or feeds implemented, on the main folder of my subdomain, and moved the old wordpress into a subdirectory. Now I just discovered that by doing that, any links on the RSS readers of the users of my old feed would just redirect to nwwl. I uploaded a stub index.php to correct that situation (I mean, I’d rather show an error than an embarassing picture).
I am really really really sorry for any inconvenience caused by all this situation, and I hope the few of you subscribers haven’t given up on me yet… If anything, this will serve to show you should never trust ad-supported hosting or free mysql hosting.
In honor of Dreamhost I’ve themed my blog with the Dreamhost inspired theme “A Dream to Host” ![]()
To better days!
