Other interesting reasons the server move happened when it did

Jonathan Bayme approached me about paying for Decknique’s hosting maybe 2 weeks ago or so. But we’d been really busy. Theory11 is always getting multiple things done every week. I was preparing a move to the States. But I figured we would move it before the next billing cycle began.

Then 3 days ago I get a notice from my monthly bill failed to be paid on time (it’s set on automatic). Which surprised me (the failed part, not that the bill fell on that date though I didn’t know anyways).

The day before, I bought my iPhone 3G (which I used to take the photo in the previous post) and had to put a large deposit on my AT&T account because I don’t have any credit in the USA yet at ALL (and they don’t care about my credit in Canada). So I accidentally ran out of money in my “immediate spending account.”

The e-mail also said I had 72 hours to work on the bill or the account could be temporarily suspended.

So then JB and I worked hard (he found the hosting and signed up, I gave the OK for hosting and brought everything over) and managed to get it all moved in time. I spent pretty much all of yesterday moving things over, fixing bugs, and getting the whole Internet to realize decknique.net moved. My old host still hasn’t gotten back to me about the conveniently unpaid bill for next month. We’ll see what comes of that.

But I’m glad to say the new host is snappy and working great. It’s also a better price than what I was paying before, is actually managed this time (so I don’t have to spend as much time doing server software administration work and can focus on actual Decknique stuff), and of course T11 foots the bill.