Yesterday the site was working fine and then Yahoo must have made some change to one of their servers or software because suddenly my site was totally unavailable. After waiting on the phone for over 1 1/2 hours, and then discussing the errors with the tech support guy, he finally checked with the system people and found the problem was on their side, but they had no idea what had happened to cause it. (Big surprise.)

So my choice was to either wait until it’s fixed (which was supposed to be within 12 hours at the least!) or to finally move to Bluehost.com, which I’d been thinking of doing anyway. (Guess they helped make up my mind, eh?) I like Bluehost as I already use it for other things, and they have decent pricing, great tools, and handy tech support if needed. They also support more add-ons than Yahoo, and let you tweak things at a more advanced level so this should make future website handling quite a bit easier for me.

I’m glad I decided to move the files – 24 hrs later, and the original site at Yahell, I mean, Yahoo, still is giving out http 400 errors with no fix in site, er, sight…

So, I will be trying to restore or replace the articles that were previously here and add new ones along the way in the meantime. (It’s always something in the fun and fascinating world of blogging and website design.)

Unfortunately, if I try to restore my previous backup, the files lockup or some are missing (differences between Yahoo’s MySQL and everyone else’s?), so any and all previous comments have been lost. Sorry ’bout that…

BTW, the irony of the situation is, Yahoo sent me their annual ‘how do you like our Small Business Hosting’ service just a few hours before they killed mine. How’s that for timing? LOL

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