Graar. Okay. So, as I've

Graar. Okay.
So, as I've probably already mentioned here, I do some paid HTML work for the school my mom teaches in, managing their website, adding content, etc.
I've probably mentioned that their FTP server has been screwed up for more than a month, too, leaving me effectively unable to do any work on their site. It took them almost one month and a half to give me back access to uploading/editing files on the server. In the meantime, I was getting yelled at as if it was my fault for not uploading the stuff I was supposed to upload.
So, now I get an email. Server's fixed, just use this new password and you will be able to upload files. Fine, okay. I FTP to the server, try uploading a file, it times out on me. It then proceeds to do the same thing the next 8 times I try. Okay, so the server's not completely fixed, yeah? I can still manage to upload everything and edit the links I have to edit with a little patience, yeah? Well, guess what. Every time the server times out - and it times out a LOT - it eats the last file I uploaded or edited. I mean, it EATS IT. One second it's there, and when I reconnect after the timeout, it's NOT THERE. Augh. So I've had to rebuild 5 files almost from scratch, since I did not have a current backup. It took me one hour and a half to do something I could've done in TEN MINUTES.
Guess what? I'm not doing any more work for them until they fix their goddamn server for good.

¤ February 8, 2002 06:57 PM ¤

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