OK, I must preface this entire rant by saying that it was all my fault, and all stemmed from my inability to read. Having thus disclaimed, let me proceed with my tale of woe.
A few months back, when I took a renewed interest in having this website be hosted somewhere, I went looking for a new host site. I found the fantastically cheap e-Host-One dot com and their affordable $2.95 a month plan. Overjoyed, I jumped onboard and began recreating my slice of the internet. There was a one dollar plan, but that looked too limiting for my storage needs, database plans and bandwidth expectations. Within a few hours after purchase, I promptly forget which plan I had bought.
Now this wonderful web-space I’ve bought has a brilliant web-interface called cPanel. This beautiful web-application has on one’s sidebar a constant reminder of how much storage space one is using, the size and number of mySQL databases onboard, as well has the bandwidth consumed to date. Somehow, my account was listed on this page (but not actually so) as the One Dollar Plan.
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July had started off as a good month for me, in regards to the internet. I got PHPGedView up and running and a WordPress blog starting to look right. I begin ruminating about a complicated CMS addition to my pages when I see I am using my one and only mySQL database for my blog and that my bandwidth is almost totally consumed. I freak out, at first just taking PHPGedView offline, but quickly deleting it all together, desperate to save space. I spent hours trying to find a blog software that doesn’t use mySQL (thanks to this table), and subsequently deleting my new blog after exporting it to PDF. After all that, I started thinking again.
An urgent ticket on the support forum leads to a quick response from e-Host-One: the cPanel was displaying the wrong information on my account. It was promptly fixed. Instantly, I way under my bandwidth, at ten percent of my storage capacity and using zero of my five mySQL databases. Now I have vented. Now my stupidity is public. Now I go cry.
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