So… I’m now forced to call this the new home of ‘Benie’s General Blog’. So, why? Why am I doing this? Well let’s say I had one of my episodes. More like, anger…
Alright. Here’s the story. See, beniesbuilds.com had moved a week ago to a new server. But there was a problem. Angry was not happy about reaching an area of the website that he was normally able to do so. He’s the brains of the site, and … I’m just the blogger. :/
He made a ticket with our hoster, Arvixe, about why he couldn’t access. And they said a bunch of things that I had no idea what they are. But it lead to them telling him that they would have to move the website to a ‘VPS’. It would had costed $20 a month.
Now that’s not bad at all. Yet, there’s one thing I wanted to know that they just kept attempting to avoid directly answering the question; can the billing date be moved. See, I get paid monthly. Every month. Doing it now, would be risky; compared to doing it like on the 5th of every month, would guarantee the funds would be there.
Yet like I said, they seemed to refuse to answer my question. So… why should I give them a dime if they’re this stubborn? Even as I type this, I just still don’t see why. Even though I was told by others that they’re paid to give you a semi-direct answer, it just feels like a bad way to treat your customers.
And angry, who I hoped would help me with this… *sigh* he never really cared. If he cared about this thing he wanted access to, he would had tried to calm me down. Or even, offer to pay for it. It was almost like he was doing this for me, and not for him. Yet he never said that.
For many years, the website hasn’t been used for its purpose. Benie’s Builds.com, was supposed to be a website of where I could show off my creations from Garry’s Mod(and other building games like Minecraft), and not feel like a ‘failure’ for them not working right. However, that never happened. The purpose of the site pretty much died off, and it turned into me doing what I’m doing right now; blogging about random things I find unfair in the world… and angry used it as his own personal coding sandbox.
This pretty much woke me up. “Why am I paying for something I’m not using fully?” When I told angry, he did his usual silent treatment. He has grown tired of me always complaining. Though you can’t really blame him. This is why I tell everyone that meets me and says I’m a nice guy, that they’re making a mistake by saying that.
Yet, I never once thought of “I should backup my blogs incase he shuts down the website”. I had forgotten how easy it is. I then went to ESO:TU. Was having issues trying to connect. I had checked my blogs, and notice how quickly they were 404ing (yet all other websites were up). This is when I felt a lump in my throat and knew he did some things (such as shutting down the website). Checked my email and saw a few new entries. One about an ‘account deletion’. It wasn’t my hoster, but I assume what angry was working on.
Could I had handled it better? Yes, I could. Looking back… as much as this bitch was pissing me off by dodging my question, I should had said after the second email(as calm as can be); “Yes, I know it can be set on the date when it goes active. But can it be changed to another date?” Yet, why even bother looking back at that now? The damage has been done. This isn’t something I can fix. Not even an “I’m sorry” to angry will help.
He’s going to demand I change my ways. That’s the only ‘fix’. Stop yelling at people who annoy me, and learn to deal with things that annoy me. And I cannot agree to this. Even with the games I play, I get so pissed at ‘gay’ game mechanics (getting knocked off my mount/dying/getting stunned and unable to fight yet the enemy can/etc…).
And that’s not the only thing he did. He’s removed himself from my friends list on Steam, and has de-friended me on Skype. His mother (the account of her) has as well…. and I deserve it.
*sigh* Whatever. I won’t dabble into this anymore. As I said, the damage has been done. Looking back at it will only make things worse. So that’s why I created a new blog out of the ‘ashes’ of the old one, via having it hosted here on WordPress. I’ve been using it for awhile, and some of the features I’ve grown accustomed to are behind paid options. I’m using the Free version currently.
I also managed to create a new Games blog, and somehow angry has decided to keep beniesbuilds.com up long enough for me to export all of my posts and have them moved to the new one. The process will take time (they have to do it… go through all my blog posts. The horror), but hopefully it’ll be done.
As for this blog, I don’t know what angry did to the old General Blog. Probably dust in the wind now. Though that old blog barely got any posts, it was known for getting a lot of unwelcomed traffic. Which is why the server move happened.
Though the mistake I made will be forever burned into my head, things will get better in a few weeks. At least, I hope.