AfterVictory.com

Where have we been?!

You Have Betrayed Me for the Last Time
Oh man, what a strange and painful situation it’s been on the tubes. The full story reaches a level of nerdery that continues to hurt my head, but the short story is that you get what you pay for.

Here’s the medium-story: Once upon a time (way back in 2002) we registered Rockland-ave.com from the equivalent of the Building 19 (or Ocean State Job Lot if you’re from RI) of web hosting companies. Twenty five bucks a year seemed like a good deal for both the dot com name and the hosting space.

Five and a half years of poor service, frequent outages and slow response times lead me to almost switch hosting companies numerous times. My hand was forced last week when they deleted the database that held all our blog postings. No warning, no error message, just Error establishing a database connection.

I emailed the hosting company, hoping it could all be restored. The only reply from them I received was an error message stating that their email service had been turned off. Fantastic. I viewed this as a bad sign.

We very much wanted to hold onto the Rockland-ave.com domain name, as it was almost a like a brand for our micro-corner of the web, but it was not meant to be.  All my requests to transfer the domain name went unanswered.  Trying to set up the site again on their servers seemed like a bad idea, fearful it would disappear again.

But here at Rockland-ave AfterVictory.com, we adapt.  So here we are, new domain name, fresh new name-brand hosting service, plus I managed to recover/restore almost all our old posts and comments. I still have to plug in a few comments, but that’s more of a next weekend kind of thing.

Timely
Pushing aside my anger for the DMV-like service we had, and looking at this from afar, it’s not a terrible thing that we’ve changed domain names, and the timing seems sort of appropriate. AfterVictory.com (although a reference to jobs we held almost a decade ago) comes at a time when our lives are about to change significantly. It’s cool that we’ll always have the posts from the Rockland-ave days, like a digital scrapbook of sorts, but it’s also cool that we’re starting something new when we’re about to start a new phase of our lives.

That said, we’ll be keeping this site for a while. Update your bookmarks.

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