Times, they are a changin' at my ISP:
Pipex. And not for the better, I can tell yer. Allow me to elaborate...
There was a time, not so long ago, when Pipex ran
Solaris. Simple times. Reliable times. Good times.
Now the
Beast of Redmond has reared its ugly head in the data centres at my end of the Intarweb, and all is not well:
1) During the move something broke, leaving images corrupt on ILikeJam. Just images, though, everything else was fine. I could have re-uploaded, except...
2) FTP access changed so that passive FTP is no longer allowed. Not much of a problem, only no-one bothered to notify me, so my upload script broke.
3) FTP access is now available roughly 20% of the time. '
421 FTP server busy' errors are the order of the day, even on a Sunday morning.
4) My website now sets a cookie. Why? No idea. I'm not particularly happy about it though.
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Windows, eh?
I do find it slightly ironic that I had to email Pipex for support after they changed to Windows, when I support Solaris for a living. But then again, maybe that makes sense.
It should be noted that the Pipex front page (the highest priority part of their public website, one would imagine) is
hosted on Linux/Apache, while the customers
languish on Windows/IIS. Now, what does that tell us?
