The MacDeskBlog

Okay, so one of the last things I said about the server was that I thought I had fixed the bug which was causing the performance problems, but that I was unwilling to declare the bug squashed yet.

It’s squashed. Performance has been good ever since. The machine is stable, reliable and at last performing as desired.

Additionally, I have the sites copied over to the new server (identical software setup, beefier hardware specs), I should be able to get to the database copy this week and start testing it.

And, then there’s the Allume deal, which, if it goes through (and it’s looking very likely), will mean another migration (back to Mac OS X Server! Yeah!) later this summer.

So, I got this email from GoDaddy late last week: “Bandwidth Warning: Dedicated Server Monthly Bandwidth Exceeded.” Surprised, I logged into my admin interface for the server, and saw that it didn’t give me a summary of monthly bandwidth, only a daily graph. Adding up the columns, I decided that I had not exceeded my bandwidth and would continue my investigation later. Later turned out to be yesterday, and this time I found my monthly summary: 126GB of 500GB allocation.

How the hell is 126GB used out of 500GB allocated exceeding my bandwidth?!? Bad GoDaddy! Shame GoDaddy! It’s really quite bad enough that my 500GB bandwidth on each server doesn’t pool (I had used 4GB of 500GB for the new server until I copied the sites yesterday), but them trying to scare me into buying more bandwidth is shameful. It almost worked too. Bastards. They list their superior service as one of the top ten reasons to use them, but their service stinks. Now they’re trying to trick me into buying extra bandwidth which I won’t use. And the Virtual Dedicated Server I initially leased from them was a piece of crap and lost most of my data. All in all, I must say that I can’t recommend them as a server provider. Sure, they’re cheap, but, well, they’re CHEAP. I’ll be happy to move off from their hardware when the time comes. Tiger Server, here we come.