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                   JOURNAL FOR THURSDAY 14TH DECEMBER, 2023
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SUBJECT: Advance warning of possible service disruption
   DATE: Thu 14 Dec 17:18:53 GMT 2023

For years I’ve used 123-reg as my domain registrar. This is a hangover from
when I worked in a digital agency. We used 123-reg for all our customers so it
made sense at the time to put my personal domains there as well.

Time moves on and I changed jobs, 123-reg kept tinkering with their systems.

I’m pretty self sufficient and have simple requirements. My interaction with
123-reg and their support is minimal. When they updated their customer portal
it didn’t bother me that it was terrible as I hardly used it.

Today I get an email from 123-reg about an email forwarder I’m using. I’ve
read the email several times. They are migrating users to a new setup. They
seem to be trying to persuade me to setup a ‘Generation 2 mailbox’ so they can
charge me, but then they say I don’t have to and they won’t. The forwarders
may stop working, or they might not but I can no longer manage them without a
‘Generation 2 mailbox’. Something, forwarder?, will get migrated somewhere,
new mailbox?, but they’ve said I need to set it up manually? The forwarder is
currently free and there are no mailboxes. With all this farting around they
want to charge me £23.88/year after the first year of use. I’m not sure if the
charge is for only the forwarder or forwarder and a mailbox?

A very confusing half arsed email…

So to hell with it all. This weekend I’m going to migrate my domains to Mythic
Beasts[1]. They already host a dedicated Raspberry Pi for this website and the
Git repositories. Their support has been nothing short of exceptional. I can’t
recommend them highly enough.

As a result there may be some downtime over the weekend while things settle
down. This would more than likely be due to me doing something wrong during
the transfer process or setup afterwards…

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Diddymus

  [1] Mythic Beasts: https://www.mythic-beasts.com


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