Over the past week we have been migrating each of our sites to a new server. I know the last post I mentioned the hardware and that RocketDock.com was already on its way through the mystical journey of DNS transfer. Last night we finished up migrating the few sites we had strangling. Atomac was one of them.

Quick notice to those who we are hosting email for, everything should be exactly the same except for how you access webmail. Instead of accessing the subdomain webmail, you simply add webmail as a directory.

Looks like this whole server thing is just one nightmare after another. So here is the new plan regarding site switching and what not…

Everything is pretty much going to stay on the current server we have it hosted on. We were going to cut our service from our provider due to the horrible attitude and support we got regarding our second server we purchased with them. We then realized we are kind of in a bind regarding budget. Fully managed dedicated hosting solutions are pricey and very few reviews are out there regarding services. So with the “new” second server we purchased earlier we are going to keep solely for the purpose of hosting RocketDock.com (which was the original intention anyways).

In short…Atomac is staying put and those of you we are hosting email for will have no changes regarding connection information or service. So enjoy!

For those of you keen on following news over on Punk Labs we have been dealing with RocketDock.com’s server downtime. I am so disapointed in our managed server company’s support on this one. We purchased the new server last month to take the full load of RocketDock.com. Upon switching everything over we noticed a huge onslaught of spam emails going to PolyVector’s personal email (which he also happens to use for business related stuff). We have searched high and low for the problem on our server. The odd thing is no one else who we host email for has had trouble with this spam occurrence (trust me, you would know what I am talking about if it happened to you). Then the unthinkable happens and our server company has told us the IP for that particular server running RocketDock.com has been blocked (who has blocked it, we don’t know, we are assuming the company’s ISP).

Now we are not server experts…I would call myself a complete novice, PolyVector knows the file system structure and how to work with settings files (and more I am sure). But when it comes down to this weird spam issue our hosting company has been….well…lets just say support is non-existant. Why on earth are we paying for a managed server when we aren’t getting help managing it. Our biggest fear was the new server came with a nice spam bot or botnet or some kind of fun virus sending out email. It isn’t unheard of and issues like this do occur. In fact our last dedicated server company had to take down quite a few servers before we moved to fix a virus that did much the same thing.

Anywho,besides all this going on our phone has decided to sop working. We have been having issues with Skype on and off for a little over a year now. I had recently given up and forwarded our Skype number to our iPhone so we can still get calls while we debate on switching everyone/thing over to using solely the iPhone number. but now the forwarding doesn’t even work and we have been getting calls from friends where we can’t hear anything (not even a crackle) on their side. I am still not certain if they can hear me. So if you call our normal number you will get frustrated voicemail message from me saying to call the iPhone.