😠 I Hate Technology

well, at least for today

Shawna Newman
November 14, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

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Closing in on 5pm here as I write this today because I’ve been fighting with the same client website since yesterday afternoon.

That’s right yesterday afternoon.

And it’s all because of a shitty web host that used to be good.

So Here’s What Happened

So, I rebuilt a Webflow site on a temporary domain in my Hostinger account.

Client approved it, but the site had to be copied to a cheaper web host cause I gave him a year of free hosting included.

I picked Siteground cause their Black Friday deal is going on now and I could get their GoGeek plan cheap and maintain access to the client hosting.

I didn’t know Siteground would fuck me.

Move the site. No downtime. Starting testing out all the forms on the site.

Everything is looking good, until it isn’t….at like 9pm last night.

I can only assume that my IP address was marked as spam or something cause my form entries stopped coming through. (Guy collects leads, so lots of pages with forms).

Site design went kinda wonky until you submitted a form. Weird shit.

I didn’t engage with Siteground support since a year or two ago I had to explain some basic WordPress stuff to them when I was trying to get help.

After fighting with the stupid site on Siteground, I gave in this afternoon and just moved his site to my cheap hosting package (Hostinger)…where the site was built and working fine.

Guess what? It all works perfectly right now.

Fucking Siteground.

So, avoid them. Especially for a client site. I should have known better. Learn from my mistakes. Cause my hourly wage for this Webflow to WordPress project has gotta be like so terrible. Though I didn’t get back to work on the site today until like 2pm…so not quite as bad as it seems. fml

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Stay awesome,

Shawna

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😠 I Hate Technology

well, at least for today

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