Cleaned up some of the scripting even further for even faster loading times and even fewer files to have to mess around with. I'm hoping this will make having to mess with the core less of an issue, even though the scripts that were in place already did that to some extent. But this way, I have the core all in a single file that I probably won't touch after this except to add in a few more credits or to fine-tune. But changing the layout will simply be mostly a matter of editing CSS, with a few minor changes to the header scripts.
I swear, PHP is so underrated. I wish I had known about it (and CSS) when I was in my teenywebber phase way back in 2001.
Oh, and I'm back to having a network again. I really should have known better, but I have to admit that Glob@t is terrible at notifying hostees. Or rather, their official mails get lost in the sea of spam they send you, bugging you that, "This is your last chance to upgrade to storage and bandwidth that you'll never need so you can get traffic you don't care about to see a product you don't sell at a price you'll never afford! At least, it's your last chance for
this month!" As much as I think their actual hosting is good, they're bad about spamming their customers about their latest deals. And it certainly doesn't help when a good number of those deals are ones you have to opt-out of. (Which can be rather complicated)
But the other problem (and this is by far the worst) is that they are
terrible at updating information. I had my account set to update automatically, but because my card expired and I had to enter new information for the new one my credit union sent, the email that was sent to me about renewing my domain informed me that I would be charged $0. (Due to what I believe to be their system registering my old card, even though it's been several weeks since I entered in the new information) To make matters worse, the only links provided in the email were for support, which unfortunately is still being outsourced to non-native English speakers relying on scripts, or so it seems. (Each time I've gone through support, it's never solved my issue) In short, my domain lapsed and there was nothing I could really do about it.
So, I did the same thing I did last time: I registered a new domain. Everything works pretty much the way it's supposed to, with one notable exception. I switched the account over to the new domain, but as of the time of this post, Glob@t has yet to have their system updated. So while I can access all my pages and upload via FTP or an individual site's admin panel, I am still locked out of my Glob@t control panel. Each time I attempt logging in, I receive the message that "account has not yet been provisioned". There is a note below the login that "account changes can take up to 15 minutes to propagate to the system", but it's been closer to 15
hours.
Now, I didn't mean to turn this into a rant about Glob@t, but buyer beware: someone must have bought them out, and whoever it was has the business sense of
SixApart. Some poor decisions are being made to an otherwise outstanding host.
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