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Irresponsible web host companies

Posted on Monday October 24, 2005 in Work

Today I have been working with Pixelframe on a site for one of their clients.

The client has requested that their site be converted from it’s current static incarnation to “one that we can change ourselves” ie content managed.

They want to do this using Mambo (or Joomla which I haven’t used yet and would like to try).

Lo and behold, the company that hosts their website has recently undergone a “server upgrade” and now a whole bunch of scripts don’t work, including Mambo/Joomla.

These scripts make use of the /tmp directory, however after the “server upgrade” this directory is no longer accessable.

What kind of “upgrade” actually limits the usefulness of something?

  1. Heh, welcome to bizland in the 21st century, where the word ‘upgrade’ is just another part of marketing bullshit bingo speak lexicon.. woot for the death of natural semantics.. I guess. Party at my house next month to celebrate ;-)
    Posted by Nick on Oct 31, 05:44 PM

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