Stupid ISP's
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Thunderbox666 wrote:
A couple of weeks ago they stopped taking new customers and stopped selling any hardware.
No offense, but if you knew this and didn't bail, you're well, fill in the insult.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Joe Woodbury wrote:
fill in the insult
Stupid / negligent / an idiot / all of the above? The reason we didn't bail is that we took their word that it was only temporary. My company has used this company for over 7 years, so when they assured us it was only a temp thing and wouldn't effect anything, why shouldn't we believe them?
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We have a backup, but it is old. I wasn't here when the website was made, and the people who made it were supposed to maintain it for us. Because they didn't completely fulfill that, they are making us a new one now :-D Oh well I finish on Thursday so it wont be my problem then.
Thunderbox666 wrote:
the people who made it were supposed to maintain it for us. Because they didn't completely fulfill that, they are making us a new one now
Are they going to maintain the new one? Or just wait until a new ISP folds? Who really cares, you're done Thursday.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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We have a backup, but it is old. I wasn't here when the website was made, and the people who made it were supposed to maintain it for us. Because they didn't completely fulfill that, they are making us a new one now :-D Oh well I finish on Thursday so it wont be my problem then.
I suspect none of us have backups as current as they should be... *cue the list of people wanting to brag about their 15 minute backup schedule*
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Thunderbox666 wrote:
Last day is on Thursday
Pretty much no worries if you are bailing out. Leave the mess for someone else :-\
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
Paul Conrad wrote:
Leave the mess for someone else
It's the IT way!!
-------------------------------------------------------- Knowledge is knowing that the tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad!!
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I suspect none of us have backups as current as they should be... *cue the list of people wanting to brag about their 15 minute backup schedule*
-------------------------------------------------------- Knowledge is knowing that the tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad!!
Well the other sites we have which are all housed internally, are on an hourly backup, but this one for some reason was hosted outside
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Thunderbox666 wrote:
the people who made it were supposed to maintain it for us. Because they didn't completely fulfill that, they are making us a new one now
Are they going to maintain the new one? Or just wait until a new ISP folds? Who really cares, you're done Thursday.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
Its going to be hosted internally, and yeah, i don't really care who maintains it :-D
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Paul Conrad wrote:
Leave the mess for someone else
It's the IT way!!
-------------------------------------------------------- Knowledge is knowing that the tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad!!
Yeah well I am still the IT guy here for 2 more days... so either I fix it (or at least do something about it) or put up with the winging.
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Its going to be hosted internally, and yeah, i don't really care who maintains it :-D
Thunderbox666 wrote:
going to be hosted internally
Was that decision made after the ISP went belly up?
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Paul Conrad wrote:
Leave the mess for someone else
It's the IT way!!
-------------------------------------------------------- Knowledge is knowing that the tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad!!
Yes, it can be. :-\
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Yeah well I am still the IT guy here for 2 more days... so either I fix it (or at least do something about it) or put up with the winging.
Thunderbox666 wrote:
I am still the IT guy here for 2 more days...
Hopefully, it'll be a fast two days :rolleyes:
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Thunderbox666 wrote:
going to be hosted internally
Was that decision made after the ISP went belly up?
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
yeah... just a little too late... however I did suggest it a few months ago, but it fell on deaf ears
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yeah... just a little too late... however I did suggest it a few months ago, but it fell on deaf ears
Thunderbox666 wrote:
suggest it a few months ago, but it fell on deaf ears
I am in that situation right now. I've made some advises and so far deaf ears only.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Thunderbox666 wrote:
I am still the IT guy here for 2 more days...
Hopefully, it'll be a fast two days :rolleyes:
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
Paul Conrad wrote:
Hopefully, it'll be a fast two days :rolleyes:
yeah but for some reason I think it will go far too slow for my liking... Oh well.. this time next week I will be on my way to Tasmania and I can forget this ever happened :-D
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Thunderbox666 wrote:
suggest it a few months ago, but it fell on deaf ears
I am in that situation right now. I've made some advises and so far deaf ears only.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
Don't you just hate upper management who think that, because they can run some aspects of the business, they know everything about everything? They kind of remind me of teenagers... Teenagers know everything about everything, then as they get older, know nothing.
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Paul Conrad wrote:
Hopefully, it'll be a fast two days :rolleyes:
yeah but for some reason I think it will go far too slow for my liking... Oh well.. this time next week I will be on my way to Tasmania and I can forget this ever happened :-D
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Thunderbox666 wrote:
I will be on my way to Tasmania and I can forget this ever happened
You'll forget a lot more than that!!
I will have to to fit in down there
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Don't you just hate upper management who think that, because they can run some aspects of the business, they know everything about everything? They kind of remind me of teenagers... Teenagers know everything about everything, then as they get older, know nothing.
Thunderbox666 wrote:
upper management who think that, because they can run some aspects of the business, they know everything about everything?
That is precisely what I deal with. I do have one client who wants to mirror two databases, no big deal, but they want to do it in MS Access. I've explained over and over that SQL 2008 will do the trick once it is released.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Paul Conrad wrote:
Hopefully, it'll be a fast two days :rolleyes:
yeah but for some reason I think it will go far too slow for my liking... Oh well.. this time next week I will be on my way to Tasmania and I can forget this ever happened :-D
Thunderbox666 wrote:
I think it will go far too slow for my liking...
Not if you socialize with your fellow CP-ians on company time for the next two days :-\
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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So our companies website was hosted with a local ISP in town. A couple of weeks ago they stopped taking new customers and stopped selling any hardware. Today our website went down. When I tried to contact them, their email and their website are down, phones are disconnected and all the ftp and ip's are not responding. I rang another company who do a lot of work with this ISP and they said that the ISP is closed down without the view to re-open. So now we lost our website and have to make another one. :mad:
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Joe Woodbury wrote:
fill in the insult
Stupid / negligent / an idiot / all of the above? The reason we didn't bail is that we took their word that it was only temporary. My company has used this company for over 7 years, so when they assured us it was only a temp thing and wouldn't effect anything, why shouldn't we believe them?
Thunderbox666 wrote:
The reason we didn't bail is that we took their word that it was only temporary.
Q: Are you closing up shop? Thought: If we answer yes, we loose companies, money, and make the last few months miserable and we might as well close doors now and walk away... but if we answer no, we may be lying, but we will squeeze a few more months of profit out of the business, close the doors and walk away and they will never know we lied.... A: No, of course not.