ServerSeed Era
In a continuation of this post, I’ll be continuing to four part-ish history of this site and how it all got here. So far, this is where I’m at:
- Part 2: ServerSeed Era (Current)
ServerSeed is a hosting company. They used to be a hosting company of the highest reputation, and it was a good first paid host. I was trying to get some good paid hosting going for a while, to get me out of the free stuff, and I wanted a domain. So when I got some downtime on my free host, I thought it had completely disappeared. I had never had downtime, except on a previous free host, but I didn’t realize what it was.
I took this as an oppourtunity to finally get my Dad to get his credit card out to pay $11 CAD a month for the ServerSeed plan. Free domain, some pretty good specs, and of course, they hosted Pixel2Life. I was an active P2L member at the time, and I knew that they would only choose the best of hosts. So all things done, I registered the domain www.cdesigns-media.net and was off to the races, so to speak.
Nothing good really came out of this era, except for a whole lot of PHP and MySQL coding, learning and experience. I was basically taking crappy table based designs and coding user systems, tutorial systems, etc… and trying to run a tutorial site. It never really worked out well, but then again I never really tried hard to write tutorials and submit them to search engines such as aforementioned Pixel2Life.
Though through this time it was also my first experience with WordPress. I had a small, never visited, rarely updated WP blog for a while running various free themes until I eventually went back to the norm of tables and PHP.
Then one day, out of nowhere my site went down. I now knew what downtime was, but this was the first downtime at all in three months or so with ServerSeed, so of course I was sure it would pass. Maybe an hour or two, right?
Well, over 350 hours later I started to send in the support tickets and direct emails. I never got a response, and that would coincidentally the next month that the credit card would expire so they stopped getting paid. A week or so later, Pixel2Life announced they were leaving ServerSeed, and Dan Richard (owner or P2L) said he didn’t know what happened, and he is good friends with the owner.
Thanks for that one, ServerSeed.
In the end, that caused me to loose all interest in anything having to do with the web, and I didn’t have a host for a very long time. I wasn’t going back to a free host, now that I had spent months and months on good, fast, but apparently unreliable hosting.
Next time I’ll get into the current era, or the ‘DreamHost era’ and that is what concludes this one.
ServerSeed now is running again I think, but they took a huge hiatus after this ordeal, and probably lost every customer they once had. I could understand this all if they at least made an announcement or contacted me or something. Anyways, that’s been over for a long time now, and ServerSeed is a host you want to avoid very much. 
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