If it's not one thing, it's another.

I've been very dissatisfied with my host lately (ADDR) and recently got an e-mail from them informing me my credit card had expired (which it had). However, the e-mail linked directly to the form where you input your new info, and I don't know about you, but I'm highly suspicious of this type of setup, since it's completely possible to do domain masking and all this other nonsense. I've been thinking of switching to Go Daddy (of superbowl fame) for awhile, since they're so unbelievably cheap (that's how I got idolarcher.com), so I wanted to know how much longer I had in my contract with ADDR. You can't get this info via their Control Panel, so I logged on to one of those "live chats" to ask about it.

The guy was really rude, I thought, and completely unhelpful. I said I'd been thinking of switching, and his response was "I'm sorry to hear you're planning on changing services" or some other crap that showed he didn't give a shit. Frankly, I don't see why I'm paying InterNic so much to register my name and why I'm giving ADDR my ten bucks a month when they don't offer subdomains or board support, and they want to charge an extra $5/mo to get mySQL. (You get allt his for the same price with godaddy). So, long story short, I'm going to change hosts.

Unfortunately, this means everything gets wiped and I have to reupload everything from scratch, and I'm not sure how long the actual switch will take. (Less than a week, I would think.) Dokuja.com will likely be down at some point during that. The upshot of all this is that Idol Archer may disappear for a week or so, I'm not sure, so I don't see much point in killing myself to update it when it'll likely be down. (Scanner situation not resolved, and I'm working full time and helping my mom with her store on the weekends, so time has been scarce. Thank you everyone for your suggestions on where to get cheap scanners, but I already have one, I just don't physically have it in my possession. XD)

So.. I'm thinking rather than wasting time uploading all the IA stuff onto dokuja.com when it's going to move soon anyway, I'll skip that step and try to get the new layout together so I can just skip directly to the new domain.

I'm sorry if allt hat sounded like a commercial for Go Daddy, but I've been really impressed not only with what they offer but with their service. I strongly recommend against ever hosting with ADDR, as they have limited options and you have little access to administrative stuff, and their customer service majorly bites.

The short version of all that: Dokuja.com might be down for a little bit, until the move takes effect and I reupload everything. IA will be down a little longer, probably, until I can get the new stuff up on idolarcher.com. Thank you guys for being so patient; I feel like an ass, espcially when I'm leaving in five weeks. But I'll try to sort everything out as quickly as is humanly possible. (And I only have two more weeks until I leave my job, so..)

PS - I feel bad that the V-Day special is so delayed (it's going to be computer coloured, so I'm really stuck on it until I can scan), so.. would anyone care for a short written story to tide you over? XD;

And as a final note - I have almost 50 gmail invites sitting around, does anyone want one? (Just reply with your e-mail address if you do. <3)