I think I’m snake-bit on blogging. I had hosting problems before, then comment spam issues which shut me down on that host, then moved to WordPress and a new hosting service (because I couldn’t install the database on my own), then too much traffic which took me over my limit and clogged email. Then, once I figured out how to effectively combat comment spam, I ran into the issue that took me down this time.
I am on venompages.com hosting and Kate was establishing her own service through reselling. I’ve had no problems up to this point. She and her husband just returned to CONUS from Hawaii, bought a house, then she disappeared. All this happened at about the same time as the prime host changed out servers–the one our stuff was on. So, DNS nameservers got changed without our knowing about it and they shut down the old server.
Which brings me back to Kate. At first I was really mad. Then, when nobody responded to emails I began to get a little worried. Did something happen to her or a member of the family? I still don’t know.
At any rate, I am going to try to move this site to Blake Farenthold’s ISP. He takes care of Jim Lago’s site, and I like the idea of having everything local. I was originally going to put my local news site there, but Blake was toying with the idea of running for the city council and I didn’t want to get into a potential area for conflict charges against him. Now that he hasn’t, the door is open once again.