Update 5/7: After all of the downtime w/ MySQL, my host just went offline for an hour or so. Just keeps getting better…

Update 5/7: This posting was moved from a temporary space setup due to the issue described below… I’m back on my original database server, planning a move to a new host later this evening… Hopefully my current host will stay online long enough for me to migrate.

dllHell.net has been offline now for over 72 hours. The hosting company I use has been fighting with some virtualization software since Friday (5/2). Taking a database server offline for over three days is bad enough. Not having a tape backup of the server is even worse. Adding insult to injury, I moved my databases to that server because of horrible performance on the one I was on (this one). So now for the time being, I’m back on the old database. I have some missing posts (March and April are in limbo right now). When the server is back online, I’ll be migrating this site to another host and will hopefully take the lost posts with me. My first post on the new host will be a candid discussion of several shared hosts that I’ve used over the years. Until then…