Author: Olly

A year and a bit has passed since we took on ownership of the server all our sites are hosted on. And to start with, it was fine. If i ever had any problems, i always asked dave or daniel to have a look, and 9 times out of 10, they would fix it there and then.

Now this has been a great setup, but i guess i cant rely on other people forever. And the people who read my blog regulary will know that quite recently the people i have been relying on, havent been available. This has made me realise quite how badly i need to learn all the command line stuff, and i need to fully understand PHP and the things related to it.  I mgiht see if  can do a lil course in it? Cos i cant handle being stuck like this with no one to help me 🙁

I cant blame people, i bet they get quite annoyed with me asking them stuff all the time, and they do have thier own lives to lead. Its just sometimes i feel very alone and very pressured. Like right now..

And i have GOT to quit smoking. Its dumbing me down so much.

Not long then i can go home and have a power nap. H is over tongiht cos we both feeling depressed, and feel we can cheer each other up. Thats if i dont fall asleep first.

I had never been to USC before. I had heard stories of how mint it was, and how it was the best show of the year. I wouldnt say that it was the best show, but it was damm good. Me and dave finally got our shit together and headed off about 4pm friday, his car looked awesome! Fuck you barry boys!

We set off with no music, and only a very vaige idea of where we were actually going. After only gettin lost once we finally got there to find most of our lot rat arsed already. Ive never seen ste drunk before, and it was ace! 🙂 Everyone was talking, there was no little groups just on huge mad party. I took a few party smarties and to be honest i wish i haddnt. I have to be in the right frame of mind to have them, and i REALLY wasnt in that frame of mind.

The following day i felt like shite. I felt depressed, ill and tired. I usually get a hint of depression after abusing myself, but not usually the day after! It made me feel distant from everyone, including H. Which made me feel even worse. I gradually got better as the day went on, and had another mint night including claire throwing up all over sarah, ahaha.. puke covered trousers anyone??
The sunday was a MUCH better start, went to watch cars on strip again, got sunburnt more, bought a hat. Then we went back to the campsite cos it was hot and we were all nackered. On the way back we passed Bekki and Mush, who were going to fill up water balloons and supersoakers so we could go ambush CC again, as we had done it the night before.. DRIVEBY!!!!

Oh how wrong i could of been!!! I got back and H opened fire on me! So of course i retalliated, and that lead to a full scale water fight.. any we could lay our hands on.. old water bottles let out in the sun, ANYTHING! Mush, hollie and H.. Ill get you back @ trax if its hot.. Watch your backs!

Im so tired as i sit here writing, but i dont want to go to bed cos then my weekend will be over. And i dont want to go back to work. 🙁 Im dreading checking my bank balance too, i bet im broker than the joker! 🙁

Yep, thats right. The rain has started. Its USC this weekend, and i hope to budda its sunny. The weather forcast for that area doesnt look that promising, i guess we’ll have to wait and find out. Im really looking forward to the weekend. It should be another long one, and a proper mashup! It also means i get ot spend quite a bit of time with H, as normally its only a few hours.

I felt really gutted that i couldnt update my blog when the server was down. In my time of need i was let down! I might see if i can transfer it to my old ntl webspace i have. As theres will never ever be down. I only get 50mb tho, or is it 500? Ill have to check up on that, and see if i can transfer my domain n that to them. At least that way people will be able to check on the progress of maxxd server issues even if the server is off?

Im yawning like a  bitch, so im out. I hope im not late for work.. Again! oops!

I have had possibly the worst 2 days of my LIFE! We had a brilliant weekend, raised money for a good casue. And things were honkey doory.

Then came monday night, 6:00pm, and LT were supposed to be turning off our server, and putting a new hard drive in so that we could move the data across, and hopefully have trouble free hosting.

Right, so this should of been done at 6:00pm monday evening. By about half 7, they told me my server would be turned off. By about 10:30, they turned it off. TWO HOURS LATER they tell me..

“ Hello, Your reload is in progress”

What the fuck? So 6 hours after you said it was gonna be done, your JUST starting it? Losers! Anyway, 3 HOURS after that i get…

“ Hello, Sorry for the delay but your reload is complete.”

So i got my mate to check stuff, and they had NOT put the old HDD in as a slave. TWATS! All our sites had been down now for a day. And they had ONLY just completed the task they were supposed to do – well – half of it anyway.

NINE HOURS LATER they figured out they haddnt put the old drive in as a slave even though id told them 3 times. It then took them  a further 2 hours to locate and find a second drive and mount it.

It was the wrong fucking drive wasnt it!! Its then taken them a DAY, a full fucking DAY to find our old drive (all last ngiht i was preparing to sue them, cos i thought we’d lost everyhting) plug it in, and turn it on.

LOSERS!!!!

And my mate daniel has flogged himself to death all day for me, getting shit across so that it could actually be used. I cannot stress enough how much you have saved my life today daniel, thank you so much! Dave, if you reading this we need to get this boy some rims for his car!!

And i cannot stress enought how fucking crap Layered Technologies (Layeredtech) are. I understand that the servers are self managed and its up to us to look after them, but its taken them two full days to do the simplest task in the world!

I blame the fact about 8 different people were dealing with my case. I dont imagine what i requested is requested very often, and they usually get basic reloads and HDD swaps, but not reading the support log before jumping in and doing major thigns like ripping hard drives out of live clients servers, is just unprofessional, stupid and generally not a fucking sane thing to do.

If you debating wether or ot to use LayeredTech, id say DONT. Find someone who willl actually provide you with telephone support. As support tickets can be ignored and forgotten about FAR to easily!

I have had about 4 million things to blog about, ive missed everyhting so much. its good to be back!