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007 – You Get What You Pay For
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"Your account is locked," said the support person in the chat window. I already knew that, the screen I was looking at clearly displayed this. "You need to unlock it," he said.

I need to unlock it? "Uh, OK, how do I do that?" I asked.

"Just check it," he said.

I’m guessing that he was looking at an entirely different screen than I was.

"My account status reads ‘locked’ but I don’t see a checkbox or anything clickable around there," I said.

After a pause, he said, "Ok hold on while I fix it for you."

I felt a mixture of joy and rage.

It all started a few days ago, when, upon clicking on the link in my “new account” email to get to the control panel for my new domain, I was greeted unceremoniously by a bunch of errors and a message saying “Authentication Failed.”

Awesome.

Certainly, I expect computer systems to fail, tis the nature of the beast, but I would have at least thought that the link in the automatically generated introductory email would do what it was supposed to. If there was a problem, I would have expected a far nicer error page (that is to say, any error page at all) with a support contact instead of the gobbledy-gook I was presented with.

I took a deep breath and thought that perhaps my assumption of even a basic level of professionalism was unreasonable and it was I who needed to lower my bar.

And so, after I fiddled with the URL, got a login screen, was fooled by a green “Update Successful,” message (when nothing actually changed), I called their support line. I navigated their seemingly endless phone tree, only to hear at the end "We’re currently migrating our phone system, please try again later."

That’s just… I mean, I’m sure there are words for that, but I couldn’t think of any because I was having an apoplectic seizure.

To all the domain registrars and hosting providers out there, just thought I’d clue you in. Usually, setting up web hosting goes something like this: 1) I give you money 2) you give me a bunch of info on how to access stuff 3) stuff works.

It was months ago that I registered this domain, and when I did, I just intended to park it, so I tried to save a few bucks and went with a very cheap looking registrar with an equally cheap sounding name: domainsarefree.com.

They got the first step right, but then fumbled on steps two and three.

I was surprised by how responsive their support chat was.

"Ok, it’s fixed. Is there anything else I can help you with today," he asked.

I reminded myself to practice compassion.

"No, that’s it. Thank you very much," I said, "Have a great day."

"Your account is locked," said the support person in the chat window. I already knew that, the screen I was looking at clearly displayed this. "You need to unlock it," he said.

I need to unlock it? "Uh, OK, how do I do that?" I asked.

"Just check it," he said.

I’m guessing that he was looking at an entirely different screen than I was.

"My account status reads ‘locked’ but I don’t see a checkbox or anything clickable around there," I said.

After a pause, he said, "Ok hold on while I fix it for you."

I felt a mixture of joy and rage.

Awesome.

I took a deep breath and thought that perhaps my assumption of even a basic level of professionalism was unreasonable and it was I who needed to lower my bar.

That’s just… I mean, I’m sure there are words for that, but I couldn’t think of any because I was having an apoplectic seizure.

They got the first step right, but then fumbled on steps two and three.

I was surprised by how responsive their support chat was.

"Ok, it’s fixed. Is there anything else I can help you with today," he asked.

I reminded myself to practice compassion.

"No, that’s it. Thank you very much," I said, "Have
a great day."

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2008APR302237
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seldom logical

Got in on the first 10K offers for google appengine and have been offline and busy for the last couple of days. Working on my latest version of Nextgen.

So isn’t your code now coupled to google? Won’t they own you? Well no on both counts. Firstly the code is pretty much pure Webpy. I’m using the Datastore API. Not much code to port to another db. I own a domain name so I really can move the domain name elsewhere. So for the cost of a domain name (at the moment) I’ve got my engine up and running … well almost. I be releasing pretty soon.

The cost of scalable hosting just got a lot cheaper all of a sudden.

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How to Buy a Domain Name
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http://live.pirillo.com/ – Buying a domain name isn’t too difficult, and it’s much cheaper now. A decade ago a domain name cost upwards of per year!A domain name is usually the name of a website you visit; for example, “lockergnome.com” is a domain name. By the way, the “.com” at the end is known as a Top Level Domain.There are several Top Level Domains (TLDs), including: com, net, org, gov, edu, and so on.Buying a domain name is pretty simple: you open an account with a registrar (such as GoDaddy) and purchase the domain name you want per a certain price per year.Speaking of buying a domain name, you can save money by visiting GoDaddy and using one of our coupon codes: CHRIS1, CHRIS2, CHRIS3, or BLAUGH.Want to embed our How to Buy a Domain NAme video in your blog? Use this code:
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