I hate hitting pot holes in the road... This little excursion was a real whopper. AFTR is now running, once again, on my small server. The hopes of the new server have been throughly crushed, along with AFTR's traffic over the last couple of days.
I did get a few painful lesson out of this though:
1. Level I techs at a hosting company will say anything to get your money.
2. Level III techs at the same hosting company don't care what the billing, sales force and Level I techs tell you. If they don't like your site, too bad for you.
3. Don't count on the hosting company to honor any migration agreement. I was supposed to have the full 30 day migration period to work out the kinks without having to worry about having the account cancelled. Its clear that after 20 days, that didn't get honored...
4. I'm glad I was paranoid enough to keep backups on my small server.
5. This really hurt AFTR's advertising, search engine rankings, and the reputation I've spent 4 years building. A lot of work has been undermined with this "bump in the road."
Well, back to hunting for a larger server to run on... In the meantime, my small server will have to do and I'll have to think smarter in my code to make it work.
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