Some people may have noticed that my site’s been down for almost two days. Or maybe nobody noticed. But please don’t tell me that so I can continue with my grand delusion that people went into panic mode when they couldn’t access my blog.

I was in the middle of writing a post when suddenly the download manager popped up asking me if I wanted to download pages instead of viewing them. I sent my piece-of-crap web hosting company (not to be confused with the piece-of-crap web hosting company I ditched just two months ago) about seven help tickets marked “urgent” over the course of 24 hours and couldn’t get even a reply! It took until the fifth ticket before I included my first angry “fuck,” which I think showed a lot of restraint considering my site and email weren’t working.

Their website claims, “You can speak to us 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.” What they don’t mention is that you can speak to them 24 hours a day, but they probably won’t be listening and they certainly won’t be responding. Being ignored aggravates me to no end. They could have said they were working on the problem or they could have said they didn’t know what the problem was. They could have even blamed it all on me. But they should have said SOMETHING. I finally had to switch to a new web host and wait for the DNS servers to switch over. Let me tell you, once you switch from html to php and SQL, you want to find a good host and stay there forever. Figuring out how to configure that stuff is a bitch.

So now 36 hours has passed since I first wrote them and still nothing. My chances of getting a refund of the balance paid don’t look good. Where’s that Virtual Bullet when you need it?