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1&1 and Digg Don’t Mix

July 2, 2007 |

Very frustrating weekend after I had a story on the digg homepage on Thursday afternoon. My hosting company, 1&1 couldn’t handle the traffic and the sys admins changed my .htaccess file to point to 127.0.0.1 for all my domains, effectively wiping me off the internet and barring me access to the .htaccess file so that I can’t change it anymore.

Calls to their support go to India, where nobody seems to know anything and those who know what to do don’t do it. After many calls and emails, nothing happened and my domains are still lost in the cloud.

So I switched servers today and it seems things are moving along fine for now. Expect some outages over the next few days, but at least the basic blog is running for now.

1&1 still hasn’t gotten back to me yet. I can understand that they would temporarily take my sites down until the digg effect has worn off, but it’s been four days now…


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