At this very moment in time, I have so much anger for Yahoo I wouldn't feel sad to see them go bust!! Where do I start in telling you what has happened, why I have a new look blog and why the site has been down for the past several days...
On Monday, I noticed a distinct lack of emails, I went through the usual routine of checking connections and to my horror I noticed that the www.saucypanties.com web site was down. It is now a fuzzy memory of what I did and when but I must have checked every part of the Yahoo Small Business hosting pages for a contact telephone number but nothing. I tried logging on to send a message to email support but my password and username were not recognised.
It was only after 3-4 hours of continued effort that I found a page which instead of stating my username was not recognised it actually said "Account Terminated For Breach In TOS" (terms of service)... That was it, hours upon hours of work, 3 years of blog entries (my back-up failed) and a blank page staring at all visitors new and old... All this after we had all worked so hard in climbing the Google rankings and page 1 in used panties, worn panties and dirty panties search terms...
Those of you who this has happened to will know the numb kind of feeling that you get when this type of thing happens, anger, why, what should I do and confusion.... I didn't want to rush into anything but should I waste more time in trying to find out why Yahoo had done this and could I correct it, maybe it was a mistake but then do I want to continue with a host that could even think of causing so much grief... Maybe a host with a contact phone number and a person who you could speak to if things went wrong would be a better option. What about customers waiting for orders seeing the site down and thinking we had gone for good as well as our friends who had kindly linked to us... No the decision was made the same day to go for a new host but one that was a little more open minded and one which could be reached by telephone, www.xilo.net is now our web host.
The usual process of setting-up the DNS servers, uploading the site and getting used to a new control panel followed, the SSL shopping cart is still not working as I need help with PhP MyAdmin and the blog has a new look... Again another wasp sting for me when I could not access the old Word Press blog and I could not get it working on the new server so a switch back to Blogger.com powered. Is this a good move, somebody please comment it is. I sell my worn panties, I am good at that, its not hard, you put a pair on you wear them for a day, you maybe masturbate in them a little you take then off and sell them to a guy that wishes to enjoy them. I am not a programmer, a software developer (are these the same) and I have limited knowledge of web site developments so why does everything have to be so complicated...
The old email address is now working again, still lots of replies to go through with explanations *sigh* more updates to follow as bugs are killed and problems are fixed...