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[enteirah]

Yay, I now have a broadband connection. =:) The line was activated this morning, a few days ahead of the predicted October 1st date. It's much nicer to have this fast connection once more, especially as it gives me even more excuse to sit in front of the computer for hours on end. =:P There's only one major problem I've encountered so far. A few people have found before that my websites couldn't be accessed. Well, the ISP I'm on is one of those to have problems too, leaving me unable to directly access my own sites. I can easily restore HTTP access to the site by browsing through the university's proxy server, however POP email access is still unavailable. The problem seems to be with the nameservers on the hosts server not responding fast enough or something like that, and from what I gather on their forum, lots of others have found the same. I'm still trying to figure out a short-term solution to this on my computer side, though it's looking increasingly likely I may have to look for a new webhost longterm. It's a hell of a job to move that much data from one host to another and set everything up again, however this problem has gone on far too long, and something has to be done about it. =:\ Now I just need to find something to do with the connection. Anyone out there still play Worms Armageddon? =:P

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[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Hm. If it's just sluggish domain DNS at fault (though that in itself would seem a bit odd; the ISP's DNS caching should take care of that side of things, surely?), then moving just the DNS elsewhere would solve the matter.

Is http://www.thankustars.co.uk/ amongst those affected? Came up rapidly just now.

And entirely agreed on the lusciousness of broadband. ^_^ Not just the speed, but the permanence.. and, of course, it doesn't prevent others using the line for voice purposes, which I understand is another use some folks put it to.

[enteirah]

I don't know exactly what the problem is. All I know is that alot of ISP's DNS servers have trouble resolving to any of my domains whose nameservers are on the webhosts servers. Thank U Stars is one of those affected, though it can sporadically affect some of my domains and not others, and also strike at different times of the day. =:S

[loganberrybunny.livejournal.com]

Well, both websites seem to be working for me as of now, so let's hope that lasts. =:) I really don't envy you (possibly) having to move everything over to a new host, though. It was bad enough when I moved B'n'B over from Geocities, although admittedly a lot of that was because of Geocities' lack of any form of FTP provision. =:P

[enteirah]

Thankfully CPanel does have a backup option which is working fine for most of the sites, and automatically migrates a good number of settings. (yes I am moving servers now) Thank U Stars still required some additional manual uploading as the backup/restore option doesn't work too well once you get past files about 60mb in size. :P (Thank U Stars is 111mb, and that's in tar.gz form :o)

[eliki.livejournal.com]

*Grins* Nope, but I still play the very first Worms. :D

[enteirah]

Ooh, I've got that somewhere too actually. =:)

[eliki.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I'll have to give it a try thru UAE, if I can get it across from the original disks. It pushes the AGA chips pretty hard so it would be a very good test. :)