ETA, March 2015:I am now hosting this site with Squidix, and have been very happy with their service. You can read a full review here. Short version: my site was down for 45 hours this weekend due to Hawk Host's abysmal support. Because I was well within their "30-day money back guarantee" period, I have changed hosts...
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A recent commenter asked me, "If you are so confident in what you have written, why are you responding to each critical comment?" The post in question was a controversial one with numerous commenters up in arms about what I had chosen to share. I considered my options. If I respond, people like her would think that I'm being defensive. If I don't respond, someone will inevitably chime up and say that I'm acting high-and-mighty by ignoring helpful statements. It was, as the title of this post suggests, a no-win situation. That was one example. Here's another. (image source) Last year, I sought to implement a blogging schedule. One of the topics I regularly wrote about was my faith. And it's funny, because I never, in...
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I know I've been blabbering on about my recent web host transfer and related maintenance issues, and that most people reading won't even care. But. Yesterday, a parenting Facebook group linked to one of my old, more controversial posts. Which led to tons of new visitors. Which led to more people linking to that same post from other parenting boards (like GBCN, which is apparently a message board for former Nesties). Which led to even more traffic from angry parents who didn't agree with my parenting choices. In simple terms, this blog received a whooping 172,616 hits yesterday. (And the stats continue to stay higher-than-normal today.) My new web hosting account received a total of 381 (as of this writing) 508 "Resource Limit Is Reached"...
Continue readingI'm still working on some back-end stuff for the blog post-transition, so posts will continue to stay light through the weekend. But before I go, I wanted to share two things — First, a compilation video of some of the best 2013 Vines so far. I know that at 11+ minutes, it's longer than your average "I want to waste some time online" YouTube video, but I guarantee it's worth it! Next, I wanted to remind you that today is the last day to enter my It Can Wait giveaway. Have you entered yet? You can win a BlackBerry Q10, contract-free! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! ETA:It seems that the original video was taken down by a copyright troll, and will remain inaccessible...
Continue readingYou may have noticed that this blog was down this past Friday. In fact, you may have noticed that a bunch of sites were down that day, and I'll tell you why. When I first switched to HostGator, everything was fine and dandy. HostGator is was known to be one of the very few RELIABLE web hosts with affordable "UNLIMITED!" shared hosting plans. But in the past few months, I started noticing more lagging and time-outs. There were even a few downtimes, and then...
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