Living Documents

So after nearly a week without my website, http://www.hostmds.com has restored my service and ALL files (even the ones I have cleverly hidden from the web).  While I could sit here and write a scathing review of their slow response and lack of customer notification, I remind myself of the old adage: “you get what you pay for.”  Considering there is no limit to how many databases I can host, the amount of data I store, or the amount of data I transfer, and factoring in that I am able to host multiple domains on the same server without making it blatantly obvious to the visitor, I think I’m getting a fairly good deal.  Since I know 95% of my visitors are led here by my RSS feed, which is hosted off-site, I can easily redirect my traffic to another, temporary location.  If this site were actually generating revenue for me, I’d be hosting somewhere more reliable.

My apologizes for the outage and lack of updates while I was down, but it led me to a few great writing ideas I’ll probably take up in the future.

• My week without a website
• My week without a phone
• My week without e-mail

Hopefully next week, I’ll be writing a couple new articles I’ve had in my head for a while:

• My 3DTV Reprise
• Twitter Contests — Just Do It Yourself!