Suburbia.
Ok People can you follow me for a few minutes here?
Suburbia is fucking stupid. Pardon my French. Do we understand this? People living in 3000 sq ft houses with no yards driving 2-3 cars and have 1.5 children commuting to jobs they hate for a total of hours in their day. Neighborhoods that are nothing even close to neighborly. Community? Does anyone even understand what that means anymore?
Over populated my ass. We are not overpopulated we have created a sprawl that is unsustainable in the most vital ways. These suburbs that are being built all over are not solving anyones problems. The solution is high density intelligently designed housing and amenities. Think about it. We are not walking, biking, using transit because as it stands we can’t it is a 20 min drive never mind the walk! Transit will not service suburbs because it isn’t worth it to them the density is not high enough there are not enough people who require transit. We fall back on our cars.
Gas prices are not forcing us to change. We need to look at how we live. Our very way of life and what it has grown into is what has to change. Communities where you can call your neighbors by name and pick up their kids from school. You carpool because you work with friends and are involved in each others lives. We are all part of the solution because we all contribute to the problem.
Crap this isn’t coming out right……..maybe I should take more time to think about it! Clearly it isn’t easy.
GoDaddy.com hosting sucks and I hate them.
I made the error of giving GoDaddy.com hosting a try for one of my websites that I needed to change hosts. Thinking, hey, they are huge they must be doing something right. Stupid me. GoDaddy.com webhosting sucks immensely I sign up and get something that resembles a ‘welcome’ email but is really just a receipt and some advertising. I never actually receive a welcome email. Wow. For real? No… here is your info and some FAQs. Here is the FTP info for your site and how to start uploading. Nothing. Zip. Zilch. Nada.
Whatever I am over it. So I go to add a couple databases (*!$^#@!%#& wrong. No you will not. Because your user & database name can’t be whatever you want them to be they have to be ‘unique’. Unique to what they never actually tell you but if the stupid thing resembles a word or anything intelligible you can pretty much guarantee an error. Took me three days to figure that out. And yes, I sent a ticket to the support desk and no, they did not answer my question. Database created though not how I wanted them to be… what the eff? Why exactly do you need to exercise so much control over MY databases?
So back to the FTP info. Is it so wrong to want to use MY FTP client to transfer massive amounts of data from one server to another? I don’t think so. These seems like a reasonable request. But NO GoDaddy.com doesn’t seem to think so because do you think I have access to my FTP info? No. Do you think they could drop me an email and let me know what it is? No. Do you think if I asked them they would tell me? No. Seriously I am a little more than irked.
Not to mention that the site takes forever to load, is littered with advertising, full of useless information and these people don’t even have a toll free number to call! Wow. And on top of it all I am almost positive that I read a different user agreement when I was purchasing than is posted on their site. I never read them but for whatever reason I read this one from top to bottom and remember reading that if I cancel within the first 30 days they will keep a portion of my payment. Fine, fair enough, for all your hard work and all right? My ass. Anyway… I have been asking for a refund for about 4 days now and surprise surprise no one has gotten back to me. So I read up on it a little here and right in the agreement it says they won’t refund your money if you don’t use their service! WHAT THE EFF is that!! So now I have to report you to fricken consumer reports too or something? How can you NOT give me my money back if you fail to deliver a service?
So I confess I feel like a jack ass for not doing a little more research before choosing this crap ass web host but now I am warning you and every possible person I can.
www.godaddy.com sucks!! Don’t do it!! Don’t use them whatever you do. If you are looking for a cheap webhost that is awesome and reliable email me and I’ll tell you who I use. I love them and I am so SORRY that I ever considered using someone else. I will NEVER EVER EVER do that again. I am loyal and faithful to you until the end of my days THANK YOU for being so awesome! I have a whole new appreciation for web hosting that delivers what they promise with an easy to use interface and great support!
It just so happens…..
That I have another blog somewhere. It doesn’t really fit along the lines of this one so I will fore go linking to it for now but if you are really smart and pay really close attention you may just may be able to figure it out. I do like to ramble on and on after all. And I claim I am a writer.
