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Its only 6 more sleeps till Christmas!
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I'm an insomniac, though not this extreme 
Usually I sleep 4 hours in the bad end of the spectrum and almost 8 at the upper good end. The most of my nights are between 5 and 7 hours.
Oh and I tend to wake up, shortly perhaps, at least 5 times per night, but could be more.
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That's not too bad ... if you're 80 years old or so. 
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Halloween is coming, so I've started making Halloween music.
Here's the first[^] on YouTube. I've got two others, so far, but they're elsewhere at the moment.
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Based on recommendations here, I've used Arvixe and Webhost4Life for years. Now they both suck. What's the current best value for low volume, personal web hosting?
Will Rogers never met me.
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Can only say what I use: WinHost.
I haven't had any trouble with them at all. (I moved to them after Arvixe was bought out and went all suckage.)
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GenJerDan wrote: (I moved to them after Arvixe was bought out and went all suckage.)
Same reason I moved.
After doing some research on the company that bought them out it seems as though they've bought out quite a few with the same result.
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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I've been using ASP.NET Hosting | Windows Hosting at Winhost[^] for about 1-1/2 years and they are decent.
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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I use SmarterASP.net - Unlimited ASP.NET Web Hosting[^] (Full Disclosure: that has an affiliate ID so if you want the site just go to www.smarterasp.net)
Anyways, I moved away from GoDaddy (which ended up being terrible). This service is way better supports the latest technology including .NET Core 2.x etc.
I have the .NET Advance plan and it is only something like $15 every 3 months. Very reasonable and you get a lot.
You can do a FREE TRIAL FOR 60 Days with no credit card.
It is easy to convert to the full account afterwards. It's what I did.
Check out there comparison plans at : ASP.NET Hosting with Advance Control Panel[^]
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more specification required.
define your level of Affordable?
- both Arvixe and webhost look like about 7$ per month.
- domain name included
- 6 sites
- a bunch of storage space
How are you making your sites?
-A: From scratch or high detailed development (php, asp, html, css, javascript, python...)
-B: or WYSIWYG - ie Site Builders - if dont know what these mean, this is what your using.
If A: - as a visual studio person, I found the ease of using VS Community and pushing to Azure website so easy.
If B: wordpress has a big presence for a reason. The bigger they get, the more developers (they should) hire, expanding the functionality.
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It's not a bug, it's a feature.
It's a harvester that also does distribution 
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<OldFartWarStory>
A long time ago I helped develop software that controlled a fluorescent light tube manufacturing line. At one end is a furnace, dumping out a stream of molten glass. At the other end is some measuring equipment, a cutter, and two mechanical arms. The arms raised cut tubes that met criteria and put them on a conveyor. Tubes that failed were dropped onto a different conveyor and the glass was sent back through the process.
Our job was to run the measuring system, the cutter (which actually just sprayed the hot glass tube with a puff of water vapor, thermal shock doing the cutting), and the arms. On our first test run we discovered that one of the arms was wired incorrectly. Instead of raising or dropping the 10 foot long tubes, one arm lifted and the other dropped, throwing the tubes of glass off the end of the line.
</OldFartWarStory>
Software Zen: delete this;
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I thought MSDN and MS support defined the bottom, but the bottom reached a new low:
dealing with eBay, trying to resolve a strange issue where I can not pay one seller via the same credit card linked to PayPal that I can use to pay other sellers:
1. multiple support persons responding to each exchange about the same support request with their messages clearly indicating they did not review the extensive previous correspondence.
2. each new support person ignores the advice of the previous support persons, often repeating previous suggestions I had told them did not work.
almost as bad as the experience with Etsy getting a refund from a gem dealer in Jaipur who sold me fake gems with fake certificates. in that case, I created such a ruckus a senior support person finally got called in.
what, you may ask, is old Bill doing with gems: I think I can't tell you on this forum 
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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could be paypal blacklisting the sellers merchant ID?
Even though ebay owns pp they are still run separately - and with all today's privacy laws there's a lot of info they can't share.
IMHO something like that tied to one seller screams: find another seller ASAP.
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BillWoodruff wrote: what, you may ask, is old Bill doing with gems: I think I can't tell you on this forum
You know my email - inquiring minds want to know!
Will Rogers never met me.
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When something similar happened to me recently, i deduced it was only occuring on bidding auctions, never on 'make offer' or 'buy it now' I solved it by contacting that unpayable seller, and asking him to cancel the sale, and relist it as 'buy it now' and email the link to me rather than posting the listing. He did it. At that point, after following the link my CC then worked to pay for the sale and it was a done deal. He thanked me profusely for figuring it out. Customer Service Slugs were passive-agressive and less than useless. They had wasted hours lying trying to convince me and the seller both, that it was the sellers fault, when it wasn't. I did need to offer to pay the seller an extra $5 to cover his ($3ish) resisting fees for his trouble, but it worked to clear the transaction and he thought I was absolute *magic* YMMV Good luck ~John
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Thanks, John, that's good advice; in the case the seller never responded to multiple messages from me.
cheers, Bill
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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My all time low is with Unilever, a customer at the time.
As a supplier we had accounts on their system so we could log in on some servers to install and update our software.
So one day my account stops working and I call their support.
Apparently, you have a "stopped working on" [defaults to one year from now] field on your account which you need to set to next year every year and I didn't so according to the system I didn't work there anymore.
Took two months and eight people to fix 
They kept referring me to their internal SharePoint website which I didn't have access to because I was only a supplier.
The best part was when one of those people said "I'm a bit busy today, but give me a call tomorrow" and that day he left for a two week vacation 
Just when I had my account back it happened again.
I store my passwords in Windows and as soon as I tried to browse to their network share Windows tried logging in with the old password and BAM, locked out again
I had to remove all password from all their services from Windows and Chrome.
At least it only took like two or three days to get a password reset
And then there's this company I worked for (they shall remain anonymous).
The sysadmins were... Less than helpful.
Not once in the seven months I worked there could they just resolve my issues.
Printer didn't work "I'm busy, find another printer."
My Office didn't work on the pre-installed image "we don't have time to fix this right now."
I couldn't log in to my account "you must be doing something wrong." (yes, of course it's my fault)
Seriously, one of those guys was always on WhatsApp or Amazon, he was even checking his house with a camera he had installed.
This guy barely did anything, so when I had a problem I asked him for help and all of a sudden he was busy and he wasn't on support duty so he couldn't help me anyway
I once needed a SQL script to run on an acceptance server which I didn't have access to.
A tester ran into an issue and my script would fix it.
Even though this team was six people not one of them found the time to run my script.
Once I had the person who would run my script they all went in to a meeting that lasted the entire morning (without running my script first)
Un-support, is there another kind of support?
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BillWoodruff wrote: almost as bad as the experience with Etsy
Ironic that, as I live 15 minutes away from what appears to be one of their main support centers:
If you contact Etsy Support, it’s likely the satellites bounce your message to Hudson and back.
About Us: Etsy’s Hudson Office | Etsy News Blog
Marc
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Hi, Marc,
What you need to dress up (down ?) as a Hell's Angel, and take Etsy support a message ?
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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BillWoodruff wrote: what, you may ask, is old Bill doing with gems: I think I can't tell you on this forum
The seller is the broker, and you is the brokee!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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