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More TextDrive.com Hell

This morning, perhaps by a TextDrive staff member, or perhaps by a fanboy customer of theirs, I received email asking me to confirm a subscription to a gay porn mailing list. Seems someone took it upon themselves to try to get my email address subscribed.
This is the level of maturity involved with these people. [...]

Oh TextDrive. Oh Joyent.

I thought the following two quotes from textdrive.com CEO Dean Allen were pretty amusing. Then I laughed even harder when the server I was referencing for the press release crashed (confirmed it was not simply network connectivity between myself and it).
What’s changing at TextDrive? Nothing, really: we’ll continue strong with shared hosting, and now [...]

Moving hosting

Update 12/6/2005: GREETINGS, “non-existent” Filepile users. Not very sporting to be discussing this article from a closed-registration site, right? (I have a bunch of visitors coming to this article from http://discuss.filepile.org/, which is viewable only by those with an elusive Filepile account)

Anyway. Original info below.

Well, my time with textdrive.com has come to [...]

TextDrive Hosting Problems

Boy would it be awful nice if TextDrive, my hosting company, could get their shit together. The shared-server host my site, domain, and email are on has been up and down close to 3-4 times per week for the last 3 weeks. At the time of this offline write-up, the box is up, [...]