i am dustin diaz

Down but not out

Some of you may be wondering what the heck has been going on with this site. Well... a lot of things. First off I am none to happy with my migration to a new host as things definitely did not go to plan. But not caring to share the details, I am indeed, back!

So long... uh... old host

It's been a solid run for almost two years but ever since Marketing (or so it appears) got their hands on my hosting, they've been offering a whopping terabye of disk space and 2 terabytes of data transfer per month. Um. Right. Or so they say. Not too much longer after that little fiasco I began experiencing several timeouts, 500's (Internal Server Errors) and loss of database connections. They may have a 99.998% uptime aggregate, but that doesn't include the amount times things just don't work. However that wasn't even the end of it. At one point I lost about 12 hours of data (the case of the dissappearing comments) from my database and I was never even informed through an email that this happened. On more than 10 occassions (I can honestly say 10) my stats broke and they failed to record some hi-level days. I was looking forward to seeing how well UDASSS would fair on the day after its launch but to my unfortunate haphazard my host reported zero hits and zero visitors and claimed all statistics were accurate during those times. Bull caca-doohicky.

What gives with the podcasting?

I do in fact have a brilliant line-up of guests coming up in the next coming weeks so you'll be happy to know that this indeed was not a fluke that I thought up one day. I had a blast recording the pilot episode - granted I know it was pretty rough around the edges and has plenty of room for improvement. With that in mind, please stay subcribed! Also, if you haven't seen it already, you can subscribe directly with iTunes with the link on the footer of this website. So until next time, thanks for bearing with me through the upgrade. I'm back!