The DogSite’s buggered

The new DogSite (maddogmedia.com/wordpress) is offline for some reason, and the bots at Hostcentric are being their usual helpful selves. I’m gonna have Al Gore sit on a couple of ‘em and see if that wises the others up a bit.

Meanwhile, the original site, maddogmedia.com, still seems to be functional, though it, too, was down for a while last night. Stay tuned, either here or there, for further updates as they become available.

Update: Hostcentric has farmed out its tech support to an unemployed zither player in Waxedstringandacanistan, who has been singularly unhelpful in helping me revive the spazzed-out DogSite. Apparently the only thing that sucks worse than Hostcentric at this brief moment in time is the BlackBerry Storm. Or so says David Pogue at The New York Times, anyway. So it looks like I’ll be running my little one-ring circus here until I can chase down a new hosting provider.

Even later update: The zither player has weighed in, saying I botched the WordPress install, even though (a) it’s a one-click install managed on Hostcentric’s side of our little deal, (2) my botched install worked just fine for two weeks until both maddogmedia.com and maddogmedia.com/wordpress were taken out by a virtual IED with only the former surviving to tell the gruesome tale, and (iii) last night tech support blamed a server meltdown that today it says never occurred. Whatever. I notice that billing proceeds with its usual ruthless efficiency. That side of the op’ must be run by Germans.

Come mid-December, I’ll shift the op’ to another provider. Gnome at DrunkCyclist has offered a couple interesting solutions, as has Hungry Chuck Ibis. And in the meantime you can always visit me here in the no-rent nuthouse.