Apparently moving house is one of the most stressful events in somebody’s life.  Well, I think moving hosts must be similar ‘cos I’m having a nightmare.

Turns out I was wrong about bluehost doing all the transferring for you.  I still need to get an EPP auth code from circlehosting in order to complete it.

Which means I’m back to square one because I cannot get an auth code if I can’t contact the bloody swines.  They haven’t replied to emails for months.

I can’t even keep the domain with circlehosting and change the nameservers because they have no interface for such domain tinkering.

Circlehosting have a reseller account with enom, but enom either don’t respond or only partially read the support query.  I emailed them some time ago to say that one of their resellers won’t respond to my support requests and their reply was to try and contact the reseller.  Clever.

I’ve tried asking for help from bluehost and they told me that pretty much the only thing I can do is to carry on nagging enom to help me out.  And if all else fails report them to ICANN.  Thing is, ICANN are more like ICANN’T.  I’ve had a look on ICANN’s site and it says that when a registrar is unresponsive that ICANN can’t help but that you need to contact a consumer affairs bureau.

Do none of these domain people know what they’re doing?

HELP!

Said the man with the broken mind.

Wanting the flexibility of hosting your blog on your own space is such a faff.  I’ve not really had the inclination to blog recently because my site is totally in a state of flux.

The peeps who are currently hosting this are a bunch of jokers and it really is one thing after another.  Not long after recovering from my blog being completely inaccessible one of my 2 domains with them was due to expire.

Itchmerry.com is actually parked (is that the word?) as a subdomain of scissordesign.com, which I never used but was the first of the 2 domains for me to register and as such is the boss of the shared space I pay for.

Now, I received an auto generated email from them telling informing me that scissordesign.com was due to expire next month and that I should send them a cheque for 0.00GBP.  Obviously I needed to question such a strange amount to be invoiced for… I certainly wasn’t going to waste a page of my chequebook for zero pounds and zero pence, although it would probably have been good for a laugh.  So I emailed them and was given a reply saying the email was no longer in use and I should submit a ticket on a new support site they’ve set up.  So I did that, only for the following page to spool off a load of php errors, the sites mail server wasn’t set up properly.  So not only did I not receive any confirmation but I doubt the bunch of jokers running it received anything either.

Suffice it to say, I never heard back and the domain went and expired.

Although itchmerry.com is still accessible it is a problem because some apps, notably a lot of blog readers store the URL that itchmerry.com/feed/atom resolves to, which is itchmerry.scissordesign.com/feed/atom.  And this now fails.

So basically no one is going to be reading this, which is the sux0rz.

I’ve decided to sign up with bluehosts.  I’ve chosen them because they have paid advertising on wordpress.org’s list of compliant hosts.  So I figure that should protect me from any future wordpress issues, such as them deciding to block it or whatever…  Plus they charge a fair bit more than my current hosts and I’m hoping you get what you pay for.

They do the domain transfer for you, but i’m wondering how successful they will be considering the jokers who currently have my domain are MIA.  I hope that if they don’t manage to transfer it, they will refund me?

Even still, once I have this all migrated to the new hosts, the domain setup with be different. itchmerry.com will be the primary domain, so a lot of you (not that there is a lot of you anyway) will have to re-subscribe to the feed.  It’s my fault for not using feedburner I suppose.

Sorry.  Ugh. Still, hopefully the new setup will spur me on to keep up the blogging more.  When that happens…

Wanted to upload a song for my podcast (that no one listens to) today but it seems my site is still not quite fixed.

I cannot access it’s ftp service, just get “connection refused” the most arrogant of all error codes.  Also I don’t think email is working ‘cos I haven’t received any from the wordpress install for ages.

I can’t use wordpresses upload file because they have too strict a filesize limit in their php install.  Hmmm, wonder if you override that on a folder basis like some kind of php equivalent to a htaccess file.

Even better, whenever I email them at the moment I get an auto-response back saying that the email address is no longer used, but doesn’t provide an alternative.  And i’m using the support email listed on their website. Fun.

Ugh, my site is up and down like a yo-yo.  No sooner had I posted that the site’s hosts were hacked then some other unknown reason kicked itchmerry off the web again.

Maybe if I don’t post at all it might stay up?

Haha, I’ve had such a rollercoaster ride over the years with this cheap-ass hosting i get (dunno why I don’t want to mention their name?) that i think i must have an incy bit of affection for them.  I cannot think of any other reason why I might still be with them.

The latest chapter, last week they were hacked, and the hacker went a routin and a tootin through their servers deleting what not.  As always the backup they’ve restored from is older than it ought to be, haven’t lost any entries but there was the odd comment made since it was done, so they’ve been lost, sorry.

I’d feel really mean and kinda guilty if I emailed them asking to release my domain, or point it to another nameserver and by the way don’t renew my account… or maybe that’s my problem in a nutshell.  Not being assertive enough?