Archive for the ‘Sitely’ Category

« Older Entries

Took ya long enough!

Tuesday, July 30th, 2013

It’s been a long time coming, but I’ve finally got a new theme up on k.nu. The previous one was nice and all but I needed a change. I was waiting on inspiration, and oddly enough I got it from a damn game on my Tablet.  There’s a game called “Fashion Story” that I’m absolutely sick of playing but the color scheme for the game itself inspired me. When I showed it to Adam he said “OOH SUPER CUTE” and I told him to build something for me. He sent me a PSD with a base template, I added to it and went crazy with little tweaks and mods here and there and BOOM = New Template!

I mirrors templates that I’d done in the past. Everyone now, sticking with HTML5/CSS is going for the centered layouts with muted, but bold, colors. I wanted something completely different. There was a theme I created when I was on dork.com (over 10 years ago) that really reminded me of the theme that Adam started for me. Back then my coding skills were no where near what they are now, I think I tried to figure out what DIV tags were for that template because I’d previously used Tables and multiple frames to get everything to load. God, do you remember coding with FRAMES, that had to be the absolute WORST way to build a damn website – but no one knew any better, they just wanted to get as much information as possible onto a single page and that was the only way to do it.

I’m actually very happy that I was able to get this up and running. I know it’s not an extravagant WOW type of template, but I’m happy with it and that’s what matters.  I’ve been so busy working on numerous other things that having the downtime to get it done is really what mattered to me.  I started putzing around with it about a month ago, and was able to put the final touches on it for the last few days. I’d finished up a site that I was working on with Adam (for Kimberly J. Brown – remember her from Halloweentown?).  The site itself is ready to go in a Development folder we’re just waiting on the GreenLight to go live with it. It’s a fantastic change from the design she was previously using. It’s more hip, modern, and not located on blogger. This chick has been fully upgraded to WordPress and I’m hoping she’s super happy with the site.

My issue now is I’m at a ‘low point’ with work. So this means I’ll be working on random odd-and-end jobs to help Sean out, but I don’t have anything to personally handle on my own.  I know I’m helping him out with a site tomorrow, but then I’m jumping onto the total revamp of AGn Designs, it’s in desperate need of a facelift and I have quite a few sites to add to the portfolio.  It really sucks that I have so many NDA’s with clients, there were numerous sites that I’ve worked on that I’ve been so proud of but don’t have the ability to list them in my portfolio. One day I’ll get those kinds of sites for my own doing so I can joyfully display them, but for now I’ll just keep chugging away.

I do know that my usual boss has about 6 sites to send to me, but he’s been so damn busy with everything going on that they’re delayed at the moment.  I just hope that all of the sites he claims are coming to me aren’t going to show up mid-month in August. Our friend Colin is coming down to visit for 5 days and I really don’t want to be working the whole time he’s here. It wouldn’t be fair to him, and I already have a lot of stuff planned for us. Working would completely cut into that.

The upside to today, other than completing this, is I was able to get outside for a little while and do some much needed lawn maintenance. It’s been so long since I weed-wacked that I couldn’t even see where the bushes began and the grass ended. The grass grew straight up and over all of the trim/separators we have outside. I wacked that down straight to the dirt so I know I’ll have a few more weeks before I need to get out there again. Grass grows so damn quickly this time of year, I hate it. I wish I had a gravel yard … less maintenance.

The second upside – I found a site that makes all kinds of custom stuff for your business. It’s not vista-print – I effin’ hate them. It’s a newer site called BuildASign.com. I ordered a custom license plate, because Delaware is one of those states where you only need to have one plate on the car, so I’m utilizing the real estate that my car actually has (meaning lack of outside decoration) and I got myself a plate with AGn Designs logo printed on it. I did have to partially cancel my order with them because I chose the wrong size window decals – they were way too small for the amount of information that I actually put onto it. That was completely my fault, I know I was paying attention when I was setting everything up but I honestly didn’t even think about it being too small until my Mom had mentioned “Really, 3×5?”.  So now I’m working on getting everything larger so it’s easier to read.  The license plate should be here by the 15th. Hopefully today I’ll be ordering the larger sized decals and have them around the 15th/16th as well.

Anyone interested in a free AGn Designs window decal? I can offer free advertising to anyone interested in pasting it onto their car to aid me in a little free advertising as well.  Shoot me an email through the Contact page if you’re interested.

In any event, it’s knocking on 6am and I have an inbox to clear out so I can get some shut-eye.

Technorati: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Tags:, , , , , , , ,
Posted in AGn Designs, Boyfriend, Delmarva, Randomage, Sitely, Stressed, Work | 3 Comments »

Yea… so I renewed….

Sunday, April 14th, 2013

Every year I get a notification that krissy.nu will be no-more sometime in May and every year I pay my $30 to make sure I keep it mine. Why? I honestly don’t know. Even though I really have nothing to do with the ‘blogging’ world anymore, I still feel that this is a big part of my own history and can’t personally stop myself from renewing it.  There have been numerous times where I’ve just wanted to let it go and walk away, but that’s primarily because I don’t get to ENJOY the Internet the way I used to. Everything is work related, or Facebook (not gonna lie) and by the time I get down to wanting to work on something personal, my brain is completely blocked and I have no inspiration to come up with ANYTHING.

The upside? The few games that I play on my Tablet have given me a small amount of inspiration – completely referencing color schemes.  I do know that the next template on k.nu will be a little darker, but bright at the same time (if that makes any sense). I handed the color pallet over to Adam to see if there was anything that he could come up with because I was fresh out of ideas but wanted to do something with pink/black/white (in a different manor than I’d ever done before) and he’ll be playing in Photoshop to come up with something for me.

Hopefully there will be some time this summer where I can actually sit down and get something done that isn’t work related.  Thankfully the Internet is being slow-as-sin which is causing me to have to let the FTP programs run in the background while I find something else to do (ie: the reason I’m blogging).  I should be working on my old laptop to wipe Windows 7 out of it so I can hand it off to my sister, but that’s the reason the Network is so slow right now because I’m transferring 20 Gigs of files from the old laptop to my Macbook this way I at least have a back-up of all of the important stuff. (Files and Photoshop crap primarily). I could personally care less about making a list of “Important Programs” considering if it was important enough to be part of my every day life than it’s already on this thing anyway.

The only annoying thing is the internet is going to remain slow for about 5 hours.  I really do wish that I had some kind of a flash drive up here with me, or even a USB-to-USB chord so I could just drag and drop instead of heavily depending on the Wireless in the house to get the job done.

I think it’s about time I start digging through my old laptop bag to see if I even have a drive like that.  I’d rather wait 20 minutes than 5 hours.

At least I’m on a mission now.

Technorati: , , , , ,

Tags:, , , , , ,
Posted in AGn Designs, Daily, Sitely, Work | Comments Closed

Almost missed it…

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

Thank goodness I had to log into my namecheap reseller for a client today, I almost missed the renewal of krissy.nu.  I, thankfully, had everything I needed in Paypal today so a quick ‘add funds, renew now’ knocked that out.

I haven’t had much going on other than work which is the reason for the lack of updates for the past few days, I was doing really well with updating as frequently as possible (typically once a day) but the work load just hasn’t allowed for that.  It’s a lot harder balancing 10 clients at once than I thought it would be.  I feel that no matter how much effort I put into all of them, it seems I’m putting some on the back burner more frequently.

There have also been some issues with my email which has a lot to do with the fact that things aren’t being knocked out as quickly as they should be.  For some reason IMAP isn’t reading right into Thunderbird OR my phone and with that I’ve missed quite a few emails OR my emails aren’t even making it TO the client.  It drives me crazy because that’s a hit on my income when that happens because it seems like I’ve abandoned the project when I really haven’t.

Either way there’s quite a bit on my “to do” list for today.  Muir is over for her usual daily visit, the baby’s been a little cranky today so it’s been tough sitting down and getting everything done. On the upside, for her, I don’t have a lot for her to handle today other than a phone call and whatever is currently on the task manager that Sean’s been throwing work into.

For now I’ll get myself back into photoshop and start knocking things out.

Technorati: , ,

Tags:, ,
Posted in Daily, Sitely, Work | 2 Comments »

I apologize

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

I was having some trouble locating my theme archives on my external and since I’ve changed to two new computers since the last time I was really blogging/working online I started to think I was never getting ANYTHING back.  I then remembered the wonderful little website known as archive.org and hit up their way back machine to actually FIND everyone I was looking for.  So with a major thanks to that free service I was able to come back to the blogs I used to read all the time.  With that I’ve gone ahead and started to slowly add things back to the sidebar.  There are still a few to add, but I was clicking through things so fast that I got myself all kinds of screwed up and forgot where I’d gone.

It’s kind of weird, honestly.  Going back and skimming through updates make me wish that, to a degree, things didn’t turn out the way they did.  It got to a point where I’d stopped talking to people for no real reason at all and even 6 years later I have a sense of regret about it.  There were some good net/friendships that I just walked away from because ‘real life’ took the front seat for a change.  I’m not saying I want to go back 6 years ago and stop the clock to before things changed.  I’m also not saying that the conversations/fun I had with everyone wasn’t ‘real’ either.  I know a lot of my issues back then were due to the fact that I was dealing with the loss of Joe, and then the addition of Sean into my life.  I know that both instances had some sense of drama/awkward moments behind them.  I feel the need to say I’m Sorry to anyone whom I offended or pissed off in the process.

There was also a time where my day was fueled by Internet drama via blog or hiding out on message boards with ‘spies’.  I see that as a low point as well.  It had a lot to do with the fact that I spent a lot of time cooped up in my room bouncing from design job to design job and never really got to see the light of day.  I continued to go back and forth with people who, looking at it now, really didn’t deserve any of it.  If you really think about it – no one is better than anyone else, we all have our own lives which are more important than anything that could possibly be going on online.  While they’re guilty of doing the same things that I did, it doesn’t mean that either one is the bad guy and those ‘hard feelings’ should remain.

Basically stating, while I know it’s completely random and probably way too late to say it.   I’m Sorry.  

To any and everyone over the years whom I crossed paths with in a good way (that led to bad) OR bad way (that stayed that way) – I apologize.

The last few years have given me a lot of insight into who I am, and who I’m going to be. It really does take the loss of very, very important people for someone to wake up and realize that things need to change and you need to live every day as though it’s your last.  In the last year my life has done a complete 180 and I feel that, while it’s been hectic, it’s been for the better.  I’m in a better place, job wise.  I’ve made it a point to write-off those whom were not worthy of being in my life, and I’ve embraced the friendships/relationships that I currently have because being surrounded by good people is all that matters in life.

Drama is drama, it’s what makes the world go round (real or viral) and there’s no escaping it.  How it’s dealt with shows who you are as a person and that’s what matters most.

Again, to anyone swinging by that hasn’t been here in a while (for one reason or another).  I whole-heartedly apologize.

 

Tags:, , ,
Posted in Randomage, Sitely | Comments Closed

Mondays….suck!

Monday, August 8th, 2011

So I’m up bright and early, as usual, and I’m experiencing some trouble with getting myself moving. My day typically starts with a drive to my aunts to check in on my uncle and make sure he’s actually ready for work. Unfortunately he’s getting worse so its been increasingly difficult taking care of him. On top of his down syndrome we’re now battling alzheimers and heart conditions, needless to say its been difficult. I’m slowly watching him slip away and its taking its toll on me considering I’m here five days a week to care for him.  This has increased to six thanks to the recent Verizon strike.

How could that possibly affect me?  Simple really.  My aunt is one of the managers for the NYC office and is now working six days a week, 7am to 7pm as only three offices are open in NY at this time.  She’s back in her old office out east. So there’s my connection to that.

My back is still pretty bad. The spike in humidity is making it difficult to get around, my allergies are also full force today, thanks to the cat hair at my aunts. I made the dumb mistake of rubbing my eyes and now I’m pretty much screwed for the rest of the day. Hopefully a nice shower when I get home wll do the trick on clearing things out, we all know there’s a hige difference between outdoor humidity and pure shower steam in the fight against allergies!

Other than that things are going pretty good.  I’m at a point where I’ve got so much on my plate that I don’t even know where to begin. It would help to be able to properly sit at a desk so I can concentrate but thanks to ms. Sciatica that’s just not an option. So I’ll continue to use the little bed/lap laptop tray Sean picked up for me until I can sit up straight for more than ten minutes. It kills me to be in bed all day but I’ve got no choice at this moment in time.

Todays goals are to get to the halfway mark on a site I’ve been tampering with all weekend, draw up a PSD for the hotel site I’m contracted on and get a few write ups completed for two other sites. On top of that my portfolio still needs to be completed and I’ve got to get acidgloss.net up and running cause there’s like $600 worth of pending articles.  I really need three me’s!

Technorati: , , , ,

Tags:, , , ,
Posted in Daily, Sitely, Work | Comments Closed

Seriously?

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Today is one of those days where the only thing I can really think of saying is “WTF Mate?”.

I’m working on converting a site from tables to divs.  Now, while this may seem like an easy task (and typically is), I’ve found myself wanting to rip out my hair because I have absolutely no idea on where to start other than completely from scratch and implementing the remainder of the code.  Even ‘from scratch’ is proving to be difficult considering its a custom script where the creator obviously has NO idea on how to do anything.

The other “WTF” moment was a comment that I deleted from my pending queue, someone named “Mark” left a bit.ly URL for his website and what appears to be a valid email address noting that they’ve been here before, but lost the link (bull shit, bull shit, bull shit…yada yada) and informed me that my SEO is not up to par.  Dude, it’s a fucking personal site, are you serious?  #1, I could care less about SEO, and #2, if you type “Krissy” into Google I’m already on the first page, my PR rank is a 3 (no idea how I got that back), and I hardly ever, if at all, update…. so what’s the freaking point?

On a side note, I’m slowly coming along with My Portfolio and AcidGloss.net.  I’ve decided to keep ‘krissys-portfolio’ but the redirected domain is AGnDesignsNET.  The reason for this is it makes no sense to push everything to acidgloss.net when I do still wish to keep that as a blog.  So, agndesigns.net was available, I paid my $10, and now its just a matter of working in the content.

I’ve been working on some high profile clients, which would always look good in a portfolio, I’m also dumping all of the little BS templates that were in there for the longest time and really do not show off any kind of design skill other than my ability to whip something up in Photoshop in ten minutes and not think twice about it.  That’s bad for business, and a portfolio should utilize your best…and that’s what I fully intend to do.

The major rush behind getting everything back up and running is the pending write-ups that I need to do. I have at least 15-20 articles to write and have absolutely no ability to concentrate on my own stuff to get it done.  I’m hoping that within the next few days I can buckle down and accomplish that but it seems that every time I get some down time, someone kicks some work my way so thats an instant “nope, not gonna happen today” kind of downside.

Either way I’ll figure it out.  I also just needed to post here because it’s been well over a month, and while I do update twitter regularly, it’s not the same as sitting down for ten minutes and actually posting something here.

So now I’m off to continue working on the monstrocity that is client #3 for the day.

I need a cig 🙁

Technorati: , , , ,

 

Tags:, , , , ,
Posted in Sitely, Stressed, Work | 1 Comment »

Finally finished…

Saturday, June 4th, 2011

It took a little longer than I would have liked it to, but I’ve got everything up and running.  There are a few sub-pages that still need a little bit of work but if you’re reading this it means that k.nu has completely transferred back to its old server.  I moved it to dream-host for about a year and hosted it under Sean’s account there but their server sucks major, major ass. When going through my WHM I realized that I still had the complete site still located on my own server so after a few modifications, things are back.

It’s been a pretty crappy week, even though I’m no longer dealing with my hell hole former employer, I’ve still been sick as a dog which is giving me very little to work with when moving forward in the design world.  I’ve got a few projects that I’ve started on, and I’m going to spend the bulk of my weekend working on them but for now the larger of the projects (getting this back up) is completed.

Tomorrow is going to be a relatively busy day.  I’m going out to purchase a new washing machine AND dish washer.  The dish washer has been broken for a while, we’ve just converted to hand washing, but being as I plan to do a lot more cooking now that I’ll be home at a more reasonable hour, the lack of dishwasher will 100% get in the way.  PC Richards has a few for under $200 that look pretty decent so we’re going to go with them.  And as far as the washing machine is concerned, that completely died today, PC Richards will save our asses on that too.  We wish that the washer crapped out last week while everyone was having memorial day sales but there’s nothing we could have done about that.  So since Dad has a 20% discount since he’s a hospital employee, that’ll drop a lot of money off the final cost.

Once all of that is squared away it’ll be time to start cooking the Sunday 3-course meal.  This week will be a glazed meatloaf, garlic mashed potatoes and some variety of veggies that I’ll figure out tomorrow. I know it doesn’t sound like much, but I never had the time to properly cook anything in the past due to the work schedule.  Now that I’ll have more time at home, I’ll be able to move forward with regular home-cooked meals as opposed to whatever is convenient to pick up before I come home from work.

In any event, I still have a lot of other things to work on so I’m going to hop to it.

Technorati: , , , , ,

Tags:, , ,
Posted in Daily, Sitely, Work | Comments Closed

Darn it.

Sunday, April 3rd, 2011

So I have this vision in my head on how I want the new k.nu template to look, however halfway through I’m finding that it closely resembles one that I completed two years ago. Now, this is just proof that I have no inspiration due to my soul sucking job. My issue now is the fact that I have absolutely no idea where the OLD template even is. It’s either on the Mac, my old laptop, or hopefully on an external hard drive somewhere. It’s not on my templates archive for WordPress because I cleared that out a long time ago. I have absolutely no idea where it is. This is exactly why going upwards of three years without touching something can throw you for a loop.

I’m at my aunts house all weekend while she’s down in Atlantic City, I wanted to spend the time getting a nice new template up that will last for the next couple of months but that’s just not going to happen today. Back to playing Angry Birds on my phone.

Technorati: , , , ,

Posted in Daily, Sitely | 3 Comments »

In a nutshell…

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

It’s been a while since I was able to really sit down and think about an entry to post here. Unfortunately there isn’t a lot going on in my life that’s really “news worthy”.

I guess it’d be easier to go in “list mode”.

  • New Template – I haven’t sat down and worked on anything personal since April. Luckily I came across a similar template and was instantly inspired, so here it is.
  • College Woe’s – My FAFSA is completed, I’ve been working with Admissions at the University of Phoenix and I hope to be enrolled very soon.
  • Work – I’ve had a steady flow of work for the past couple of weeks, it’s brought in enough money where I can insure that everyone’s birthday is taken care of. Dad’s turning 60, Mo is going to be 22, and Karen recently had her birthday as well. So it’s safe to say that come July 1st, I’ll be officially tapped out. I’m still working from home. Recent interviews have proven to be a waste of my time. I’ve submitted my application to god knows how many companies and when I do get call backs they’ll look at my portfolio, say I’m great, and then go with someone who has a Bachelors in something completely different. How come 10 years of experience in internet/media for a web design position is trumped by someone with a bachelors in science? :: confused ::
  • Canceled Plans – Sean and I decided to cancel our plans for our anniversary. Money is tight and even though everything is complimentary (room, food) we can’t afford to go up to Atlantic City. So I think we’re going to head down to Ocean City and have dinner then relax on the boardwalk. It’s not the most extravagant of plans but we’re living within our means.
  • Moving – I’m in the process of moving to a new data center. I was able to get half of the accounts moved over and now I’m patiently waiting on the other half. I absolutely loathe the company I was previously with and while I adore Tony as a person, and a hard worker, the company who’s filling out his paychecks is run by a bunch of useless fucks. So this move should void all of the downtime issues, run-time issues, and that stupid “page cannot be displayed” issue connected with WordPress installations that was written off as “Natural”. It’s not natural, your fucking data center can’t handle a simple freaking script! ::end rant::

So yea, that’s the last month in a nut-shell. Boring eh?

Technorati: , , , ,

Tags:, , ,
Posted in AGn Designs, Boyfriend, School, Sitely | 19 Comments »

Time for a change…

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Since I spent so much time trying to get acidgloss.net back up and running, I decided that a little theme alteration was needed here. As far as I’m concerned, March is over. There are only a few days left and I already show my Irish pride with a tattoo so having the theme up for as long as I did, just proved I’m not into it anymore. I was also getting sick of the green. It reminds me of something I don’t have, money.

Today I was accepted for a contract/freelance position and once I can get all of the paperwork sent back, I hope to be able to get the ball rolling. I’m also still patiently waiting to hear something from the Interview last week. I assume it’s going to take a few weeks and that’s fine, it’s more the waiting that’s getting to me than the actual choice they make. I just want to know – you know?

I’ve been up since about 7am, so I’m basically vegging out on the couch at the moment. I’m too tired to move and hope to be able to crawl into bed soon. There are a few more things that I’m going to need to accomplish before that happens but it shouldn’t take me a lot of time.

The weather today was absolutely gorgeous! Sean and I spent some time down on the beach enjoying the 77°F (25°C) temperature.  While it was a pretty windy day, there was still an over-abundance of sunshine keeping us nice and toasty.  It took a while to get down there though, with such a hot day the beach was absolutely swamped.  I had to go over a few blocks to park because my usual side-street was packed to the max.  I was close to pulling into someone’s drive-way but I wasn’t going to take that route, I finally did get myself into a spot so that was good enough for me.

For a while I convinced myself that I’d be spending a lot of time at the beach this summer.  However, considering the way it was loaded today, and it’s not even summer yet, I think I’m going to setup a nice set of chairs in the backyard and tan that way.  It’s my hope to be working through the summer, so my weekends will be filled with downtime in the yard, that’s not such a bad plan as long as I maintain my regular weekend schedule, right?

Another goal for the summer is to pack enough cash away so I can get myself into school this Fall.  I know I’ve said this a lot but it’s a big goal of mine and at this point, nothing is going to stand in my way.  Maybe I’ll get lucky and I’ll get back to my $5k a month income and be able to accomplish it a lot sooner than I’d originally planned.  I can handle two full-time jobs, I have a laptop for the at-home stuff so that can come out to the yard with me!

Moving along…. After the beach we made a quick run to the grocery store, we were close to completely being out of food so we picked up the essentials and they’re going to have to last for a while.  I’m breaking my diet and going to live on pasta for the next couple of days, only because that’s all we can afford right now.  I don’t like being in a hole, but if $1200 a month wasn’t going out to bills it would be easier to maintain things.

In any event, it’s knocking on 11pm and my eyes are close to almost completely closed, time for bed!

Technorati: , , , , , ,

Tags:, , , , , ,
Posted in AGn Designs, Boyfriend, School, Sitely | 2 Comments »

Odd.

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

After about 13 hours of downtime, it seems like all .nu’s that weren’t directly registered through nunames.nu are back up and running.¬† This is the third time it’s happened during the life of my domain and I don’t really understand why.¬† Either way everything is back up and I guess that’s all that matters.

It’s been a pretty slow day, I put in some more applications, got the house straightened up and then kind of hung out for the day.¬† I did get some blogging done on other domains, and I even got a letter from my mother – out of no where which was strange but either way I updated her on things and now I’m waiting on a response.

I just finished watching CMT’s “My Big Redneck Wedding”.¬† I know it sounds strange but it sparked my interest when I saw Eastern Maryland, I actually have been to where the wedding/reception was held and I have to say I’m happy that I had no intentions of ever going back to this place anyway heh.

Time to finish getting some template things done, now that I can actually get to see them after they’ve been uploaded.¬† I floated around and did some commenting today too, I’m way behind on that.

Technorati: , ,

Posted in Sitely | 4 Comments »

Take the Upgrade?

Friday, January 4th, 2008

I signed into WordPress and saw that I’m supposed to do some kind of a manditory update on my WordPress installation.¬† Unfortunately I’m unable to get in touch with the server master for my reseller account so I can’t even get Fantastico updated.¬† Then again, I’m not even sure if there’s an update for it either.¬† I really do need to stay on top of things this year, maybe I should add that to my list of resolutions huh?

We’re staying here a bit longer than we’d originally planned.¬† I really do love being up here and I’m getting to spend time with family that I haven’t seen in quite some time.¬† Sean and I have decided to look outside of Delaware for either an apartment or a house and then go from there.¬† The half-way point for access to both families is in New Jersey so we may wind up looking up that route.¬† Hopefully we’ll figure everything out once money is good enough to make such a move.

Technorati: , , , , ,

Posted in Randomage, Sitely | 2 Comments »

Something new…

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

With my major lack of creativity I poked around for a few premade wordpress themes and found one that I thought was very light and interesting.¬† With the rate that I’m going this is more than likely going to be up for a while.¬† I’m going back to bare bones when I do actually get around to making a new template.¬† I’m hoping that Christmas will bring me some kind of inspiration so I can have something to launch for New Years.¬† I’m even thinking of getting rid of WordPress and changing over to a different system.¬† I just don’t want to go crazy with things that make no sense to me so who knows what route I’m going to take, I know I don’t.

Technorati: , , ,

Posted in Sitely | 5 Comments »

Moving on OUT

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

After going back and forth on a few emails with Surpass Hosting, I think I’m going to wind up making the switch. Hopefully this resolves all of the downtime issues that all servers have been experiencing. At first I thought my router was on the fritz but when every other website loaded except for those located on host6 and host9, I decided that it’s time to move on. I’m still working out all of the details but I do plan on making the switch by the end of the month (maybe sooner depending on whether or not I wish to even bother making the payment to the existing hosting company).

I’ll be saving money in the end, I’ll be able to downgrade a few things and I’m also gaining over a terabyte of bandwidth in the process. Right now I’ve got say 80gb space and 500gb bandwidth available to me, with Surprass I’ll have about 120gb and 2tb with the switch. It’s not even space I’m concerned with at the moment, it’s the bandwidth. As far as clients are concerned only about 20gb-30gb of disk space is even being used on each server, but the reason for needing 3 accounts is the 1tb of bandwidth (total) that’s being used. Since that has doubled I can downgrade to just the one server and thats excellent news for my wallet. Over $800 a month in hosting fees is being downsized to about $200. Savings, savings, savings!

I just wish it didn’t have to come down to this, but at this point I really have no choice. For the past three days I’m getting downtime after downtime and to top that off, posts through paid advertisers are being rejected left and right because my site isn’t accessible. I find it completely absurd and can’t wait until this is all resolved.

Part of me wishes that Rik would get back into hosting so I can go back to him. I don’t think I was EVER unhappy with his services once. For the past two months, I’ve absolutely hated where I am now. Sorry Tony but you seriously don’t help me out as much as you claim and I’m just completely done with you and the data center.

Technorati: , ,

Posted in AGn Designs, Sitely | 2 Comments »

Only took an hour!

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

Once I figured out exactly what the hell I wanted to do here, then gave up and wound up just making a new header image and changing some colors around. September’s template is born. “Uhm…Krissy? It’s the same one you had for August!” Yep, that’s why in actuality it took me 10 minutes to complete once the graphics based shit was completed.

I’m getting my ass in gear on some work for other things. I have some posting to do, some emails to write and other random things to accomplish. Hopefully once of which will be food considering I’ve only been eating once a day for the last week (not sure why) and it’s been almost 24 hours so my stomach is screaming at me. I’ll find some toast somewhere, there’s got to be bread in the house that hasn’t turned to mold yet. With the humidity here, I’m lucky to get a loaf to last more than 3 days! :ugh:

Technorati: , ,

Posted in Daily, Sitely | 1 Comment »

Downtime

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Server “World” which houses approximately 200 clients at the moment is currently down. Any account with the DNS information pointing to acidgloss.net are experiencing downtime. This should be taken care of within the next hour. It’s also 1:30 in the morning so I don’t expect many people to even be awake at this point. If you are, my sincerest apologies – everything should be back up and running soon.

Edit: 2am – Everything seems to be up and running again. Please let me know if anyone is still experiencing any downtime.

Posted in Sitely | 1 Comment »

« Older Entries