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tales-of-azura-nova · 3 years

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Episode 1 | Part 1

The Press Problem

“Well then...” Tom wrung his paws anxiously, his eyes flitting from one expectant face to another. “No sense in beating around the bush, hm? It... ah... it seems getting tourism up and running to kickstart our beloved new island’s economy is... ah...” he paused, weighing his words. “Well, it’s proving more difficult than we’d first thought.”

Sighs of disappointment chorused around the little boardroom above Resident Services at the news. The residents of Azura Nova had worked so hard — chopping wood; mining minerals; building a bridge and a shop, and even a museum! And still, the only visitors they’d had were nomadic merchants and kindly wanderers. Their brand new campsite sat as vacant as the wild, lush forest that surrounded it.

“Wait,” Audie frowned. “Like, not even the totally adorbs bunting I put up worked? But... it’s legit the cutest campsite ever! Who would pass that up?!”

Rex and Boone bobbed their heads in agreement, while Kiki, ever the pensive one, looked to Isabelle hopefully for answers.

“Have we collected any feedback that might explain why?” She asked.

“Ah...” Tom interjected, tugging on the suddenly altogether-too-tight neck of his sweater as he turned to gesture at the whiteboard. “Ahem, we have indeed, yes, yes... Ah... It would appear that the island has, ah... somewhat of a... ‘spooky’ reputation among survey respondents.”

“What?!” Audie chuckled incredulously. “That’s just redonkulous... what could anyone possibly find spooky about golden, sandy beaches to sunbathe on?”

“Yeah,” Boone chimed in, “or totally rad super-O2-tastic jog routes for endurance training?”

“Not to mention swanky celebrity homes to take selfies with!” Henry added with a flourish.

“This whole island is the most beautiful place I’ve ever laid eyes on,” Azraëla nodded sombrely. “I just don��t understand...”

Tom gazed around at his fellow islanders with pride. From the moment they’d arrived, they’d put their faith in him and this crazy vision of his. Now here they were, defending it in the face of naysayers. He couldn’t admit defeat and let them down. He wouldn’t!

“Never fear, my lovely little adventurers — I have a brilliant plan that’ll have you back in time for supper!”

“Yaaaay! Supper time!” Rex cheered.

Boone jumped to his feet so suddenly and enthusiastically, his chair toppled backwards with a clatter.

“What do you need us to do, Mr. Nook?”

After spending ten minutes assigning tasks to everyone, and almost an hour trying to calm Boone’s enthusiasm enough to prevent it from becoming a boot camp, it was already starting to get dark. Splitting them into groups, he handed out some lanterns and sent them on their way.

To be continued...

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webdesignersolutions · 6 years

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This is a rant about Network Solutions, if this isn’t the place or if it isn’t allowed I’m sorry mods please delete it /flamesuiton.

tldr; Network Solutions is just as bad as GoDaddy and I’ll never use them, ever.

So I have a client on NS with a VPS @$50/mo + tier 1 support long story short the VPS is out of disk space and the client has paid for “tier 1 support” monthly @$15/mo.

Client recently got a bunch of alerts about disk and memory utilization and their sites are all down plesk is unresponsive whines about license errors, etc. So the client in a panic reached out via phone got disconnected a few times, then via email to this “support” their paying for. Support FINALLY comes back 72 hours later and they basically just recommended to upgrade the VPS to the next tier available to increase the disk and memory available.

Keep in mind this what they call their “tier 1 support” and it is supposed to be 24/7 support but it really isn’t it takes them 72 hours to reply sometimes or you call and get hung up on, its a joke imo. It also took them 72 hours to unlock/reset the plesk password in the cp (which is redonkulous imo for a literal 5 minute task it caused the client’s sites to be down and they lost a TON of money), but thats another story entirely.

Then the client remembered me, I told them my rates and once agreed upon I logged into the VPS and yup, realized it is indeed full on disk and memory is capped out the VPS basically is overloaded. I cleared up a bunch of stale old log files, logrotate was never enabled so it had OLD OLD OLD logs on there from like 2014/2015. I logged into the control panel to try to get pricing on bumping the VPS to the next “level”, and NS doesn’t have any other options available so the client is basically capped out already.

Thankfully after talking to the client, I am moving all of the sites on this VPS over to a AWS EC2 instance with cPanel and CentOS 7.4 that I manage for them.

During this process I had to move one domain from NS to another registrar (NameCheap) and it has been a literal pain in my ass from the beginning.

First off, it took 72 hours for the WHOIS information to update, and various things to get turned off (privacy, transfer lock, etc) so we can transfer the domain off of them. Which is fine I get it, security and all but suddenly after all of that was corrected (and it showed right with NameCheap and ICANN) the admin email randomly got changed from the clients email to [email protected] without either of us asking to change it… wtf? Domain expires on the 7th, and now we have to wait another 48 – 72 hours for that WHOIS info to get corrected.

Thankfully NameCheap support was boss about it, and was able to validate the owners information and overrode the transfer process and got the process going.

Most the sites for the client are WordPress installs too, nothing even that magical.

But holy hell, and I thought GoDaddy was bad.

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webdesignersolutions · 6 years

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[RANT] Network Solutions Sucks - My Gripe as a sysadmin/webdev

This is a rant about Network Solutions, if this isn't the place or if it isn't allowed I'm sorry mods please delete it /flamesuiton.

tldr; Network Solutions is just as bad as GoDaddy and I'll never use them, ever.

So I have a client on NS with a VPS @$50/mo + tier 1 support long story short the VPS is out of disk space and the client has paid for "tier 1 support" monthly @$15/mo.

Client recently got a bunch of alerts about disk and memory utilization and their sites are all down plesk is unresponsive whines about license errors, etc. So the client in a panic reached out via phone got disconnected a few times, then via email to this "support" their paying for. Support FINALLY comes back 72 hours later and they basically just recommended to upgrade the VPS to the next tier available to increase the disk and memory available.

Keep in mind this what they call their "tier 1 support" and it is supposed to be 24/7 support but it really isn't it takes them 72 hours to reply sometimes or you call and get hung up on, its a joke imo. It also took them 72 hours to unlock/reset the plesk password in the cp (which is redonkulous imo for a literal 5 minute task it caused the client's sites to be down and they lost a TON of money), but thats another story entirely.

Then the client remembered me, I told them my rates and once agreed upon I logged into the VPS and yup, realized it is indeed full on disk and memory is capped out the VPS basically is overloaded. I cleared up a bunch of stale old log files, logrotate was never enabled so it had OLD OLD OLD logs on there from like 2014/2015. I logged into the control panel to try to get pricing on bumping the VPS to the next "level", and NS doesn't have any other options available so the client is basically capped out already.

Thankfully after talking to the client, I am moving all of the sites on this VPS over to a AWS EC2 instance with cPanel and CentOS 7.4 that I manage for them.

During this process I had to move one domain from NS to another registrar (NameCheap) and it has been a literal pain in my ass from the beginning.

First off, it took 72 hours for the WHOIS information to update, and various things to get turned off (privacy, transfer lock, etc) so we can transfer the domain off of them. Which is fine I get it, security and all but suddenly after all of that was corrected (and it showed right with NameCheap and ICANN) the admin email randomly got changed from the clients email to [email protected] without either of us asking to change it... wtf? Domain expires on the 7th, and now we have to wait another 48 - 72 hours for that WHOIS info to get corrected.

Thankfully NameCheap support was boss about it, and was able to validate the owners information and overrode the transfer process and got the process going.

Most the sites for the client are WordPress installs too, nothing even that magical.

But holy hell, and I thought GoDaddy was bad.

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