Tip of the Day: Pay your bills

If you’re a frequent visitor to my website, you might have noticed that for the past day, my website was down.

Normally, when something goes wrong, I can usually figure out the problem and fix it within a few hours because I have access to the main server, as my friend owns it. However, this time, when I tried to go to the core of the problem to fix it … well I couldn’t. The core was missing.

I went to my friend’s website, which is hosted on the same server as mine, and his website seemed to have disappeared as well. I scratched my head in confusion, then texted my friend.

A few hours later, I get a text back:

“Omg I forgot to pay the bill.”

Yes, he had received a few notifications letting him know that he was supposed to pay his bill, but ap­parently he somehow still forgot. As a result, the company that maintains his physical server cut off his service, and both our websites, as well as the control panel that manages the server, went down.

So here’s your tip of the day: pay your bills. Or else your friend’s website might randomly die for a day.

 

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