Last Friday I signed up at Gig4Free since I needed a kind of sandbox to develop a new internet idea with somebody else before going public on a 'real' domain. What they offer sounds good: support of all kind of scripting languages, mysql database, ftp,... whatever you want (or at least I want java script:emoticon('', 'smid_14') ).So I signed up on Friday and the account was established within a couple of minutes and I could start to use it. By Friday evening I startet setting up my trial database and hacking in the first php-sites and all worked as expected. It was even not that slow.On Saturday I though: that is my day. Outside it was raining anyway, so the perfect day to set up some scripts for a new homepage. But when I tried to open my page from the day before, I was'nt able! I was able to log in to the administrating site - using cpanel and all the stuff. But the page itself did not opened up. I think I tried one hour to find out, what is going on - checking server activity, checking out the announcement pages and so on. But it did not helped much. I guess they had some trouble with their nameserver.So I gave up with gig4free and the next one to two hours I spent to set up a new account at another provider, setting up the mysql again, transfering all the scripts, adapting the pathes to the databank server, debugging the scripts again, whatsoever.Finally it was 12pm before I wrote my first additional feature in the code. I was able to proceed on my project at least for the afternoon. When I looked later in the evening for my site at gig4free, it was up again. Well, I guess next time I will think about another construction for my playground - perhaps starting right off with a paid server -- half a day of my time is possibly more worth than $10.
