Yippee, its back!
Rather embarrassingly for someone who thinks themself a bit of a computer/webby/nerdy-type person, I lost my home page. No, not lost as in “Dammit, where’d I put it? Where’s it gone? I can’t find it” though given the decrepitude that periodically afflicts me (like every other minute!) that wouldn’t surprise me either.
Anyway, not lost as in that but lost as in… er… (red-faced confession) exceeded bandwidth!
Ok, let’s be a bit gentle with myself here. In fairness its only my home page, and I don’t really and truly ever expect all that many people to visit it. Maybe just one or two folks occasionally who, for whatever reason, are curious to see what “I’m about” sort of thing.
I only really set it up as a sort of token gesture… a point of contact if you like so people can, if they’re so minded, “check me out”.
Very much an afterthought really. Prompted by the fact that the webspace etc was bunged my way as a sort of freebie bonus riding on the back of the seemingly numerous services I’m splashing out for with one of my hosting providers.
“Yeah, I’ll have some of that” I thought, and decide to use it to host well, my personal “home page”.
Loadsa space available to me… but not very much bandwidth. Disgustingly small in fact. But can’t complain cos its a freebie. But there is all that webspace.
“Hmm” thinks I, “I could use that as a sort of online doc archive for the various lengthier burblings of mine, and those that might actually possess some merit or interest”. A sort of backup just in case one or t’other of my sites goes tits up.
So that’s what I do.
All well and good and sure enough it ticks over quite nicely for months on end with just a trickle of visitors. No problems. Much as I anticipated in fact. And there’s all those archived docs in a nice convenient single location for when I want to refer back to them for some reason or other… purely for my own purposes of course.
Then stupid stupid me I go and do something utterly stupid. In fairness I couldn’t have known at the time that it was utterly stupid cos I couldn’t have known at the time how much interest it would attract. Indeed, I still don’t quite believe it. But, for some bizarre reason, it did. Attract interest that is.
The full story’s in this post and this one, and I really can’t be bothered to repeat it all again now.
However, the point is, beginning of the month and, as promised by the jolly old hosting provider, my home page is once more accessible! Yippee!
All I’m hoping now is that I don’t have a repetition this month cos if I do then I’m gonna have to start thinking about upgrading the package and bunging yet more dosh in the pockets of said hosting provider… who’re already taking more than enough off me for various services and stuff.
Can’t be having that. So what I’ll probably end up doing is plonking the offending articles somewhere else entirely with a redirect in my online archive.
Meanwhile, if anyone wants to read them it really isn’t necessary to check out the archived copies cos they’re now available at yet another new(ish) blog of mine called, imaginatively, “mike’s other place” which, being hosted by WordPress (in the .com flavour, not the .org flavour like this one) shouldn’t be afflicted by such bandwidth issues.
So let’s all try and keep my personal home page live this time shall we? Thanks muchly.
-- fotdmike
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