Last Week
The last 10 days have been a fair tech disaster for me….. the site was down from the 2nd till the 9th because my previous hosting service got attacked by something while moving servers. The fact that they hadn’t informed me ( i am not sure of their other customers) about the move, and possible downtime – was exacerbated by complete and utter ineptitude while dealing with the crisis. I dealt with 7 different people over the 7 day period – each of whom was vaguer than the previous one….. And each of them responded, because of a mail from me … not because, they as service providers wanted to keep a customer in the loop…..This is a classic case study on customer mismanagement. I can understand and empathise with technical problems, I can’t with customer mismanagement. It is forgetting basics in business…
Finally when they restored the site…. there wasn’t even a message saying service restored. Therefore, I did what any paying customer would do ….. changed the service provider. When the site finally came back up… i changed nameservers, moved host……..and was out before you could say blog……
Now
Moved to a web hosting service provider called hostican.com. 200 GB space, 2000 GB bandwidth and great customer support (the last two days have been blissful in terms of restoring my site) — all for around Rs.2000 per annum. Hope that I don’t have to move for the next few years.
Am going to be doing up my new home over the next couple of days…..
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I have finally upgraded my blog -
this is now running on
- WP 2.3
- The theme is 1st Zaxioma 1.03 by Zaki
- plugins include
If you have any other plugin’s / widgets to recommend – please go ahead
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Have finally overcome severe inertia to upgrade the site … to a new version of word press etal
This follows hot on the heels of me upgrading my machine at home….. am still finding my way around the new system …. personalizing it etal….
if the blog disappears for ever in the process of the upgrades…… it was nice knowing you……..:)
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My earlier hosting service, the excellent Weblleyou is in the process of winding down their service.
And there i was, happily settled into my home – and had to move all over again. Given that in my childhood i moved 8 homes by the time I was in the 10th – i have this great aversion to moving – whether it is in the real world or the virtual one. Thankfully, the people who have taken over my hosting, The Host Group , provide an equally good service, and moving was relatively stress free. I may have gritted my teeth a couple of times over the weekend when the site was in limbo land between name servers — but then i am not really known for my patience.
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In my trawling through the net for content of interest, here are a few new ones that are really interesting.
- Atrocity News – a site dedicated to highlighting atrocities in India. The site is a meticulous documentation of cases that violate the fundamental rights to life, liberty, property and equality. Its’ progress report on Khairlangi is detailed and up to date.
- At Home, Writing – a blog that looks at literature. Erudite, informative and well researched, it acts as an effective pointer to the written word.
- Passion for Cinema – a collablog which loves its movies – good, bad, ugly, and the utterly kitschy. with little tit bits of behind the scene action, and a hit or two or rumour/spoliers – the site offers a smoragsboard of views, experiences and insights.
- Cool Bihari – a blogsite that looks at development and good news from Bihar as opposed to the death and drudgery.
- Indian Muslims – a collablog that discusses ‘issues concerning Indian Muslims’ – interesting.
These new blogs are in addition to the evergrowing list on my bloglines subscription. With the coming in of blog aggregators like Desi Pundit and Blogbharati – excellent sites – my level of involement in looking for new blogs to read has actually diminished – they do that work for me. But, sometimes -just sometimes– i miss the old blogmelas that used to happen – which gave a different sort of ‘jhalak’ every single week of blogsites & bloggers – very often based on the hosts own set of interests. Does anyone else miss the blogmelas or am i just having a bad day with nostalgia?
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I was going to write an obituary for the excellent Desi Pundit, but it came back to life. Maybe, there is a moral in this somewhere …
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After 18 months of using the extremely good Powweb hosting services, i moved to that offered by WebbleYou.
The move wasn’t without its’ fair share of drama. When the form asked me for my domain name for transferring, i gave them calamur.org rather than calamur.org/gargi which is the blog url. So the transfer was of a home page that said ‘under construction’. If someone else had done this – i would have sniggered at them. But, when it happened to me – there wasn’t much to do but to kick myself hard and call myself names. But, that didn’t really help to get the site back.
The contact person at WebbleYou – Justin Baeder – has been so extremely kind and helpful – and i am quite sure that the level of help and support provided goes way beyond what they are supposed to.The customer orientation – even with a completely idiotic situation like this – has been so very good. So if any of you are looking for a hosting service with a human interface – maybe you would want to check them out. It’s a decent deal – and the best part is that you can pay monthly rather than annually.
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Bloggers rank lowest on the scale of trusted news sources, according to a poll released this week during a media conference in London.? The survey, conducted by the polling company GlobeScan for the BBC-Reuters-Media Center “We Media†Forum and released Wednesday, ranked national TV as the most trusted news source overall, trusted by 82 percent of the 10,230 people surveyed in 10 countries.? Internet bllgs, on the other hand, were trusted by just 25 percent of the respondents. The survey found that 23 percent of the respondents said they distrusted blogs, compared to 16 percent for national TV. One in two people were unable to say whether they trusted blogs at all.
Red Herring reports on a poll conducted during a recent Media conference in London. I think that till there is either ‘self regulation’ or some sort of credibility check – the status of blogs will remain more or less what has been said in the poll.Free expression does not necessarily mean perceived credible expression!
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The site has been down for a few days. Forgot to renew my domain name. How absent minded can one get?
Felt kind of un nerving. It’s asthough a part of my identity had disappeared for a few days.
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