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InMotionHosting

Posted on May 11, 2005February 12, 2017 by Ian C.

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.

Painting Bonnet Stripes

Posted on May 10, 2005February 11, 2017 by Ian C.

I called Julian at Sublime Restorations this afternoon to check up on GBMINI#3 and he confirmed that the bonnet stripes were being painted … When I visited Saturday we agreed on the design, based on another mock-up panel he had done for me:

Minolta DSC

(I abandoned the original idea of chrome stripes due to the complexity and expense of reaching a reasonable result)

So with luck I will soon be driving GBMINI#3 again, and I can return the rental [yuk!]

Reworking the “S”

Posted on May 7, 2005February 11, 2017 by Ian C.

I spent the morning at Sublime Restorations, where GBMINI#3 had been prepared by Julian to have the “S” design on the roof reworked by Scott (from Thin Air Grafx).

Scott began by masking off the main “S” design, and airbrushing overspraying the “streaks” to make them softer and closer to the original design concept; once this was finished, Scott removed the mask and worked on the edges of the “S”, to mostly remove where the original “streaks” had overlapped. The finished design is much closer to what I had hoped to see, and should look good when clearcoated next week:

Minolta DSC