So a few of my brother's sites and my own have been on our old hosting service and something very bad just happened.  It was one of those "I told you moments" to my brother but still sucks.  One of those, you just got kicked in a very unpleasant area (multiple times).

First, thank god I ported BTE already away from their servers.  But here is the break down

They moved the server.  They changed the name servers servers and IPs.  They moved databases around.  Did I forget to mention they didn't tell us.  They took down the old name servers so nothing was resolving.  Got that fixed and realized half the sites weren't working properly.  Worse was  email on rutkas.com still isn't working properly (I can't IMAP to get my email or view the WWW page now I can finally view the WWW and do IMAP Pop3).

So the code on the site that is failing is 5 years old and I haven't even looked at a line of PHP in almost 3 years.  So to fix the sites, I have to remember PHP and decipher code I did.  Time to bust out the beer and get in to the same state of mind I was in during college.  The code isn't failing, the database is just missing for this site.  This just gets better and better.  There is another site with a database that was missing too!

On the up side, I got one of the sites that had a database ported to my server just now.  This makes me happy.  However, I think I have another 9 more to go, 3 with database migrations.  This makes me sad and wishing I could charge my brother a nice consulting fee or the old web hosting company.

Since these databases are during my "MySQL" period of my life, I have to admit, their tools for migration are fairly decent.  While migrating databases is one of the most frustrating things I've done in some time, I still somehow manage to come up with a list of things that are worse.

I got better stuff to do than this crap, you know, like sleep and finish my own anti-social projects.  I could take a bottle of aspirin to fix the headache I now have after hitting my head against the wall over and over again.

I really should just get my own web server and a database server and be done with this hosting dealie.  But is so much cheaper to just host.