Smallweb Chatter Post

[kalloway]

What's going on with your web of projects?

This is an open post for chatter and showing off what you're working on/just finished/etc. Joy and frustration are equally welcome.

Comments

[enchantedsleeper]

Thank you! So am I! :D *\o/*

I had a close call yesterday when I initially went to make the post on my DW and input my archive URL instead, then received a message saying "This website is no longer online because the hosting plan has expired". I immediately "!!!!" to my partner, whose hosting plan it is, and he was very "???" because the hosting plan is meant to (and normally does) auto-renew. We're still not sure what happened there 😅 We're also travelling at the moment, and my fear was that he might not be able to renew it until we got home, which would mean I'd be running a chunk of Small Web September without being able to do anything to my own site XD But all was well, and the site came back up almost immediately. 😮‍💨

[kalloway]

Ack! Weird... I've had Neocities hiccup on me a few times and make me panic, but at this point it's kind of what I expect for the web in general. (There's somewhere that I get stuck in a Cloudflare loop half the time on mobile, too.)

Maybe someone's cat ran across the keyboard... /only half-joking

[enchantedsleeper]

We finally did get to the bottom of what happened with the hosting plan 😂🙈 When I logged into the control panel to start work for SWS, I saw an announcement from July about price increases for hosting plans - which mentioned that auto-renews would be cancelled as a result and would need to be manually re-upped for the new price system. (I've gotta say, I feel like that's not great from a site preservation perspective as I'm sure a lot of sites would have gone down if they're not being monitored too closely, though I suppose it's fair to not just assume that people are on board with paying more?) Apparently an email was also sent, which my partner obviously missed. xD Given that he has a bunch of other sites on that hosting plan, it's a good thing I noticed when I did...

[kalloway]

I feel like that's the opposite of what a lot of companies do but at least it's taken care of now. ^^;; I hope it wasn't too much of a bump.