Jaimini: May 2008 Archives

some of you may have noticed my site was not accessible for a good span of two weeks, yes the two people sitting in the corner right there, i am talking to you. Turns out blueshost, my hosting service provider, was in the process of moving the server on which my site was hosted to some other machine. In the process the IP address of the machine changed, so they SHOULD have updated all the DNS records for the same. But they didn't. When I called to inquire why my domain was giving a "blue" bluehost page, they said they are in process of updating the DNS and it will be done in ~4 hours. No, it din't take 4 hours, it took them 2 weeks and me reminding them again to do there job to get the job done. In all fairness, they could have got it done earlier if only I had reminded them earlier. Also, whatever they did to restore my site, it had removed all (well only one) redirects I had setup, so I had to do that.

Now finally ma website is back up. I am wondering how bad is it when your domain IP address changes. What all services may go bad? I know in theory it shouldn't but you know there is always something...