Share yours. My hosting company just got overtaken for non-payment of debt. So Perpetual Midnight is now perpetually on-hold, at least for another WEEK. C'mon. I know you have issues. Feel free to share them. Or suggestions, for that matter, provided you have the perfect host.

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2002

Answers

Um, I had a domain get hijacked once and never got it back. That was pretty fucking nightmarish.

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2002

How exactly DOES a domain get hijacked? I never got that. What'd they do? Bribe your domain host?

I so need to figure out the internet before I do anything else on it.

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2002

I bought (and paid for) a domain offered to me by netsol at a very reduced rate. A month later, I check the whois, as my hosting company can't figure out what is going on and why it seems to be sitting on someone else's servers, only to find someone else apparently owned the same domain. They paid for it a week after I did, at the full price.

After months of emailing, NetSol decided that the person that paid full price would be the owner, because price paid was the determining factor, not the date of registration.

My first web host had the world's crappiest email server - I kept complaining, and they kept insisting I was nuts, until I subscribed to an email list using my domain email, and my regular email, and found, at the end of the week, that the domain email was only working about a third of the time.

-- Anonymous, April 02, 2002

All the Diaryland/Notifylist/Guestbook servers seem to be down, or just inaccessible from my computer -- on the day when I get a link from a popular site. ARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH. At least I got the new entry up in time.

-- Anonymous, April 02, 2002

It's back now.

-- Anonymous, April 02, 2002

Uh, I haven't really had any server woes, except that my server went down on December 1st at 12:01am because I told him I was switching hosts and forgot to actually SWITCH HOSTS.

Right now I use phpwebhosting.com and I love them more than should be natural. For registering domains, I'm all about radiotower.net. Honestly, those aren't pimps. Just a happy customer.

Omie's assclown story makes me sad and makes me wonder if there is secretly someone out there who really wants emilyweise.com and is just waiting for me to screw up. Hah.

-- Anonymous, April 02, 2002

What happened was my domain expired. I had somebody handling my domain, so I never got any notice that it was going to expire. I thought I'd registered it for two years, but it was only one. The minute the domain expired, an assmunch jumped on it and put up a site in its place, trafficking in the hits that I'd built up. It's someone who basically does that for a living and is in the process of being sued by someone with more legal resources than I.

That's how you have your domain name jacked.

-- Anonymous, April 02, 2002

Cheaphosting.com is satan's spawn. All. I. Need. is for them to throw my account off their server. That's it. That's all. So I can start using my new host. I am SO going to start screaming soon. Em...I should've picked your host, I guess.

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2002

Yes, you should have. Not only because you could approach my level of coolness (hah, aren't I funny?), but you'd only be spending $9.95 a month on tons of space (as much as you can handle, baybee) and fast servers that are SO RARELY DOWN.

Yes, being like me is so the way to go. Heh.

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2002

You'll only be cool if you update in...ya, know...my lifetime.

-- Anonymous, April 03, 2002

And the world is right again. Yay.

-- Anonymous, April 04, 2002

The minute the domain expired, an assmunch jumped on it and put up a site in its place, trafficking in the hits that I'd built up.

I'm currently in the process of trying to hijack a domain that expired on 3-29-2002. It's not as easy as it looks. Apparently, since it's already expired, it will go back into the public domain sometime in the next 45 days. No telling exactly when. I can pay netsol $75 to watch it and purchase it for me if it becomes available, but (a) I don't want to deal with netsol, and (b) I don't want to forfeit the $75 if the previous owner decides to actually renew it.

And before y'all jump at me for hijacking a domain, please believe that I have legitimate reasons for wanting the domain, and for not wanting the previous owner to keep it. I don't want to tell the story publicly just yet, but give me a little credit.

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2002

Since you were one of the folks who gave me tons of support and advice during my domain debacle, I'm inclined to give you the benefit of the doubt. Let us know when you're ready to talk about it.

-- Anonymous, April 09, 2002