How to Bypass CDS300, and more MySpace Concerts!

Actually, this post has nothing to do with the title. Sorry.

Although I do have a page explaining how I got by the CDS protection, and one of my posts-of-past did contain the words “MySpace” and “Concerts”…

This is actually just me toying with Google results. It appears as though Google has been shuffling my site around quite a bit, as far as what search terms I come up for. I guess it just can’t make up its mind where to put me.

See, I’ve been watching my page statistic information for awhile, in my Google Webmaster Tools account. I started coming up a lot for CDS300 related information – which I guess made since, because I did write about that. But then I noticed something very interesting: I was apparently coming up as the #7 result for people that are searching for “myspace concerts“.

I thought that was very strange indeed, considering

1. the words were used in the title of a post, but not in that context
2. aren’t there many, many other – more popular – websites out there that should be coming up for that phrase?

As you can see, my reasoning didn’t go very far.

I’ll be posting more info as I find out what’s going on – and after I get home – but I want to leave you with one more bit of information:

The company, ClickOnHosting, that hosts my website, appears to have done all of it’s customers a dis-service.

Since the day before yesterday, and continuing for about 36 hours, my email went down. Webmail, POP3 mail, IMAP mail… all of it. Nothing would connect. I submitted trouble tickets, and got responses to a backup Yahoo! account I have – but it took over a day to get email back.

While all of that was going on, my DNS information became (remains) corrupted; therefore this entire website was completely inaccessible to the world. After submitting a few tickets on that, it was corrected back to working order, however DNS reports I’ve gotten still show multiple warnings that could be causing my website to not show up in various places around the US, the World, etc…

I blame my host, not because of downtime – because things happen – but because I think they broke something when they were installing AdSense-like software into my webmail interface.

Yes, by the time I was able to log back in to my webmail, there was extra stuff on the left – apparently automatically fetched RSS feeds of recent news.

That normally wouldn’t bother me, except for the fact that it appears they installed it to make money, and broke everything in the process – and never even sent a “we’ll be performing maintenance” warning email.

If they were going to do something like that, at least give me a heads up, so that if something’s broken I know that someone is actually working on it, or that there’s a reason for it.

It’s also irritating that I lost more than a day of service, including important personal email, so that they could install money-making software into my personal, paid-for, hosting account.

ClickOnHosting – If I’m wrong about any of this, let me know and I’ll correct any of my statements.

That’s all for now,

The End.