Finally back driving GBMINI#3 again, instead of the rental car; Julian from Sublime Restorations called this afternoon, to say the new bonnet stripes were finished and GBMINI#3 was ready for pick-up. Hooray!
In England, Haynes Manuals for cars are the ultimate repair manual, detailing absolutely everything related to stripping down & rebuilding your car.
For every car I owned in England, the first thing I did was bought the appropriate Haynes manual (dependant on year of course, as well as make/model).
Here in USA Bentley Publishers put out a MINI manual nearly a year ago, but I was a bit disappointed with the lack of content in some areas.
Now Haynes is in the middle is disassembling a MINI in preparation for their forthcoming manual, and on the web they have put up a sequence of pictures as their project progresses:
I look forward to buying this latest MINI book when it is finished …
The seemingly never-ending saga of good web hosting continues … regular readers might remember my moving GBMINI from 1and1 to PowWeb (because of repeated outages with 1and1); then when PowWeb in turn failed repeatedly, I moved once again to InMotionHosting …
Now I know that web sites sometimes fail (even MINI2 failed recently) but there is occasional failure and then there is repeated failure – and there is also a difference between responsiveness and silence … both 1and1 and PowWeb failed repeatedly and handled the issues very poorly.
So tonight, GBMINI went down. I tried to visit the InMotionHosting support page but that was down too!
So I phoned their support number … and immediately got through to a REAL PERSON; he told me that they were aware of problems and were working on them. He then asked for my name & phone number and said he would call back to confirm when everything was sorted out.
Everything was sorted out, and he did call back – that is the sort of outage response that those other hosting companies should aspire to.
There is a great web site, FindMyHosting, which helped me find InMotionHosting – for every hosting company they have a detailed feedback page and uptime statistics. They show InMotionHosting to be reliable and well rated. My experience also shows them to be excellent for tech support.
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