Moving $home

Well, Godaddy had their chance(s); they failed — on an epic scale. The wikinewsie.org codebase is zipped up and downloaded, databases backed up and new hosting plan in-place. Partway through the process of removing their stupid “Privacy protection” from the domain. This, if you’ve not had the experience, is a clever ploy to lock you in and make migrating out a real pain. My Amerikan fellow Wikinewsies may be slightly annoyed as the site is moving to an Amsterdam-based host. However, we’ll cease having to pay separately for email hosting which is limited  in terms of the number of supported accounts. And, we’ll finally have a “proper” mailing list. So where are we off to? ITEC Hosting, that’s where. Getting used to CPanel as-opposed to the perpetually changing proprietary interface offered by those SOPA-supporters from Arizona is interesting but, with well-nigh 30 years of geekdom, I’ll cope. I, personally, cannot say enough bad things about dealing with Godaddy support — and I’ve worked tech. support. That means I know a good 60-70% of the problems you deal with fall into the PiCNiC (Problem in Chair, Not in Computer) category. When they do not, your support has to shine. If it’s taken a customer three or four attempts to get support to acknowledge a problem, you don’t just pass the buck to second line — you keep checking it, make sure second line …more…