Or…when upgrades become downgrades….

If you tried to click through to the site over the past 24+ hours, you probably saw an extremely unfriendly message about the site not being found and perhaps you mistyped the link, yada yada.

It seems that my host upgraded my server, but forgot to update the DNS lookup so that when you clicked, you ended up nowhere. Frustrating, particularly since they did it to three other sites I have hosted on their service. I’m fairly close to making a switch of all of them over to Bluehost.

I would probably make that switch, except that I’m terrified to upgrade anything right now. In the past week:

• An upgrade which has been over a year in development at work hasn’t gone well at all, which is why I’ve been so quiet. In fact, it’s more or less been hellishly ugly, despite our best efforts to avoid exactly what happened.
• Google did some kind of upgrade to the Blogger servers last week, which resulted in a complete outage of some blogs I work on over there. The worst part of that was that the outage occurred at a time where they were needed the most and there wasn’t a damn thing I could do.
• Beginning Friday morning, my cell phone push email went completely kaput and didn’t come back until Monday morning. They’re not talking about it over at AT&T, but I’m thinking there was an upgrade along the way there, too.
• The ‘upgraded’ Verizon DSL service I recently switched to in the office is erratic and twitchy. I’m lucky if I keep a connection for the entire work day without at least one outage.

I hereby declare August “Anti-Upgrade” month. Either that, or there are some gremlins crawling through the tubes this month with my name on them.

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