October 10, 2003, 12:55 AM ET
Verve Hosting Web-host problems
My Web hosting provider, Verve Hosting, mistakenly pointed holovaty.com this morning and early afternoon to the personal site of a random woman who, well, gives off a lonely vibe.
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Evidently something went wrong with Verve Hosting's hard drives, and a mistake was made associating domain names and user accounts. Two of my friends, also Verve Hosting customers, experienced the same problem, although the sites they pointed to were much less embarassing.
During the mixup, which lasted about three hours, I checked the site via a number of servers across the world. Some displayed it correctly, some displayed the wrong site. (I have no idea why this is the case; DNS issues scare me.) So please accept my apology if you tried holovaty.com earlier today and got the wrong site. There was nothing I could do about it. Verve Hosting dropped the ball.
This is the kind of thing nobody should have any tolerance for, so I'm in the market for a new Web host. Recommendations welcome. I'll need Apache, Python 2.2+, PHP 4.2+, MySQL (preferably 4), mod_rewrite and SSH access. Preferably on Linux.
