zethrae.us/blog

As part of setting google apps up to work with the zethrae.us domain, I had it offline for a couple of days. This happened because I changed the connection between the godaddy situated domain and the bluehost hosted site from being linked by nameservers to being linked with an A record. This way, only my actual site is dependant on bluehost. Email sticks with google and godaddy, two rather more reliable companies.

Setting up google apps was really easy actually. I simply had to add a Cname redirect to them in the advanced domain manager at godaddy, and add a couple of rules for email redirection.

Now I just wish that google apps had google reader attached to it so i could mover everything away from limpingforsympathy at googlemail to adam at [this domain]. It would anny me to have my email, calendar and docs in one place (apps) which didn’t function as a proper google account in other ways. Does anyone know a bit more about how that works?

My hosted account at Bluehost.com (on box194) was down for about ten hours today. I’m not hugely fussed as I wasn’t hosting anything of particular importance, or that I needed to rely on at the time. This is however the day on which I launch the twitter grouping bot, so it served as a fair reminder that I probably shouldn’t be relying on Bluehost for something which needs to have a 24/7 presence.

Apparently there had been an error with one of the hard disks in the server (I found this out by checking the server status myself), and I had been affected. Anyway, I lost nothing.

The factor which bugs me most here is that Bluehost did nothing at all to get in touch with me, apparently opting instead to hope that I wasn’t in the habit of actually checking or using my web space.

Is there any web host which you would casre to reccommend? I know Alex Muller hosts at Nearly Free Speech, and would recommend it.