where in the world is Prissy Green?

Those folks are demonstrating my happiness and joy much better than I can!

I am SO happy to be back. Augh, what a nightmare. Just so you guys can be in the know, let me give you a break down of what has been going on since last wednesday.

Wednesday, do a few posts for Green Fitness Week. Then I am doing my normal blogosphere rounds. I go back to Prissy Green to make sure the new posts are ok, and wham, site is down.
I think OH SHIT. this is really bad timing! So I quickly grab my phone call Godaddy. and while I am waiting, I get an email from godaddy telling me that they had to do maintenance with my site and are moving it to a new server. Then the guy gets on the phone, really nice, his name was Ryan. He basically tells me that my site was on a shared server, and pretty much was slowing all the other sites on the server down, as it was too busy. (so way to go guys!! whohoo!) But that I should look into upgrading my hosting, the the maintenance move of my site is just temporary.
So me trying to be proactive, ask him what the cheapest and best solution is. Somehow, I get to the fact that my only solution, or at least the cheap end of it, will be $575 for the next 2 years. Mind you I have never had a blog, never had a website, but still thought it was high. Then I go talk to a couple other bloggers that I know have hosting, and a lot of traffic and ask them. (momdot.com and tellingdad.com) They both told me that either the guy upsold me, or didn’t know what he was talking about for ME.  (me=crapping pants)
So meanwhile I get another email from godaddy, telling me in somewhat pissy terms, that I am taking too much bandwidth from the shared hosting server, and i have until 9/18 to fix it or they can delete my account!

Again, with the OHSHIT. So now I am dealing with paying $575, and having two trusted bloggers telling me that in no way should it cost more then $5-10 a month.  I am exhausted by this point. I sent an email to Ryan (first godaddy dude) and BCC his boss. I explain the mess to him and tell him that I think he took advantage of me, and that he should not have insulted my intelligence to think that I wouldn’t research hosting, and find something cheaper, and more economical for my current conditions.

Well Ryan called me back first thing Thursday. He let me know he wasn’t trying to upsell me, but that that the $575 plan was what he thought was best…. yadda yadda. Who knows he could be telling me the truth, but I was in a feisty mood and didn’t want to hear it. he was actually really nice both days. and I sorta feel bad for being a snot to him when he called back.
**man, I am really getting soft in my old age. Wonder how nice I will be when I am 40? think I will start tipping the support guys? lol

So then Guillermo, and he is so nice. Tells me they are trying to update their protocols and my situation really shouldn’t have happened. Then sets me up with gridhosting. So basically that brings us to saturday. They did the whole migration of accounts for me, and man, that was one heck of a deal.
But I can’t get the new server to take the domain prissygreen.com…. for 60 hours!! it was only supposed to be at most, 24 hours. But I was told it never takes that long.

so I called yesterday, today (3times) but the account changeover is all automated, they were waiting just like me. and you! So finally I tried it again tonight, about 9pm, and it worked! so then it took a few more hours to establish, and now here we are. Back at Prissy Green!

I think you will find the new hosting makes it much faster! Thank you for being patient! I appreciate it! I will extend all current contests and any that ended over the downtime by a few days.

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