Up to Main Index Up to Journal for December, 2023 JOURNAL FOR THURSDAY 14TH DECEMBER, 2023 ______________________________________________________________________________ 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… -- Diddymus [1] Mythic Beasts: https://www.mythic-beasts.com Up to Main Index Up to Journal for December, 2023