I must have upset someone....

Saturday 16th Feb, 10.39pm...MD Webhosting has crashed again. My email and sites are down and the whole MD site has gone...cannot even connect to their front page.

Something must be up with my karma...I spent the afternoon trying to install WoW only for it to keep failing on the 4th CD. So everything I had to install up to the 4th before I'd find out it wasn't working...can you imagine how frustrating that is?

But serious MDWebhosting...I might even start a Facebook group for these guys...

Peru Riot Police go Robocop

These new uniforms by Peru’s anti riot police are truly awesome - they were seen parading yesterday for the first time and have been described as Judge Dread meets Batman.

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The webhosting dramas continue...

So very briefly the service resumed yesterday afternoon for a couple of hours, and then fell over again early last night about 8pm and hasn't been seen since. The phone line is permanently engaged and emails to the centre get a standard response. Even when you try to go into live chat you get this:

There are currently 15 chat request(s) before you in chat queue.
Please wait, an operator will be with you shortly.

Total and absolute shambles. NEVER EVER host with MD.

MD Webhosting: Failed AGAIN

And to make matters worse this time, the failure is obviously SO catastrophic, they've removed the 'help & support' and 'server status' pages are being hit with so much traffic, that they're failing too...

Anyway, here's the message from them:

Australian Servers: Current Downtime and Restoration of Client accounts
Posted By: Mark Galea On: 09 Feb 2008 10:31 AM

Details: Due to a hardware failure, multiple Australian servers are inactive currently. Client sites will be restoring to normal over the next 72 hours.
If you have any further queries or if there are any issues with you site restore please contact us support@mdwebhosting.com.au

Thank you for your patience and understanding with this matter.

What I like is the deliberate ambiguity. Servers are just 'inactive'. You'll get your site back in 72 hours. I mean, it's a farce isn't it? In a service-related business like this, how do companies survive? I'm thinking of starting some sort of MD Webhosting feedback site.

Anyway, it's now 8.14am - almost 48 hours since Mark Galea posted his note...I presume I still have 24 hours to wait...

100,000 views at last...

100,000 views at last...
Originally uploaded by Carbon Images

Well, it took a while, but the account is really starting to build some momentum...and I hit 100,000 at 8.56am this morning...

Now onwards to a million!!