Ouch IX

IX Webhosting was really having problems 12-18 months ago.  During that time their servers were riddled with problems that they blamed their customers for first before they admitted/realized it was actually shoddy security on their part.

Since that rough period of time they have performed much better.  I have had nearly zero issues, until recently.  First there is the well documented complications with my server move that was made worse by a support hero that didn’t act very heroically.

Then last week there was another somewhat lengthy outage.

Well today once again there is an even longer outage.  My mail server has been off line for 8 or 9 hours at this point.  Evidently there was some hardware upgrade that went bad, real bad.

Luckily it isn’t the end of the world for me although it is rather annoying.  Others that depend on IX to host crucial services are not quite so understanding when a company that preaches 99.9% up time has their stuff off the wire for half a day and counting.