Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Four-point-six seconds. That’s how long it takes for this site to load, according to Google, at which point it admonished me with a red exclamation mark. I felt ashamed, insofar as small, crimson punctuation marks can shame a man, and promptly went to work, securing a new registrar and, most importantly, another host. The domain name transfer went smoothly enough–it’s live now!–and you simply have to know that, unlike last year’s hiccup, a site will actually materialize when you punch “secondhandrants.com” into your favorite device.

Migrating hosts has been a more tortuous path, and I’ll need to enlist the Professor for his craft. I gave GoDaddy one last try two days ago, whereupon they told me to go fuck myself in the politest terms possible. You see, we’ve been Milton Waddams’d. The hosting tier we’re on is apparently super-old, and they’re phasing it out. They just never bothered to say anything. We’ve effectively been moved to the basement for a few months now, and the only way out is to pony up a few more dollars each month–a pittance, to be sure, but completely offensive to me.

My provider search was fueled, like most decisions on the Internet, by xenophobia and forum chatter. Companies had to be based in North America and not suck. We’ll see how Geekstorage fares. I’m particularly interested in seeing how this site feels with SSD under the hood. In layman’s terms, SSD is hard drive technology that is light on vowels, but heavy on magic. That’s enough tech talk for now, though. I felt completely out of sorts today, and it’s time to turn in. There was a momentary crisis of perseverance during my morning workout, followed by a gluten-free bun during lunch, which tasted of despair.