Keeping first things first
In our July 3rd entry, we noted that we’d set up Inkworkswell.net at another hosting provider. Our main site, Inkworkswell.com, remains at its current hosting provider.
After nearly three days of outages at the inkworkswell.net site, we are reminded how difficult it can be to find good hosting services like those provided by WDDX.net.
We have created and maintained over a dozen e-commerce sites and many more personal and academic Web sites. We’ve never once had a problem like this.
Fortunately, the .NET site was an adjunct to our main site. We opened the .NET site in order to use some great open source tools: blogs, content management systems, and project management software. We wanted the community-oriented technologies to launch Design-L, the Design-L e-mail list, and the Design-L blog(coming soon).
Take away lesson? If your business relies on its Web presence, get a good, reliable host like (shameless plug) WDDX.net. It is money well spent.
