What's it all about, Alfie?

Today I had my first outage at HostMonster, my hosting service. That's pretty impressive. More than a year and a half and no significant problems. This morning I couldn't post an article to my weblog and saw that the MySQL database server was down. Pretty easy to see.

I sent in a trouble ticket, and with the hour things are back up. I have to say, for the price I pay (which is not a lot) this is fantastic service. Sure, it's not a lot to them, but it's their business, and something I don't have to worry about. I have enough of those things.

So kudos to HostMonster. Not for being perfect, but for being really good.

[12/11] UPDATE: the tech support response from HostMonster said that if MySQL went down, it would repair itself and come back up. Seems reasonable to have it restart. Good enough.

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