michelle

Moving from Bluehost to MDD has got to be one of the best decisions I ever made, and I'm sorry that I didn't take the time to read reviews BEFORE I even started with BH. The need to move started because I was being throttled to death on BH. I tried to contact support to have them give me some sort of clue as to what I was doing, but they told me "that's for me to manage" - which I would love to do, if I knew what could be wrong. I decided to do some research and after reading all the good stuff about MDD, I made the move. I moved both my domains myself and everything was pretty much set, but I was having two problems: 1) I couldn't figure out why my website was flashing in between pages when it wasn't doing this at BH and 2) my two domains couldn't email each other. I won't go into the details of the confusion I was causing myself over all of this, but the point was the folks on the forums were very helpful with the flashing bit, and Michael was EXTREMELY helpful in getting the email issue resolved. I don't actually think there was an email problem, I just think I wasn't understanding something properly. But Michael offered to go into my cpanel - OVER AT BH - and adjust a setting for me. That right there was the moment I knew I made the right choice in moving. I thought I was going to miss the 24/7 live chat feature that other sites have, but since those chats never get me anywhere anyway, and now seeing how awesome this support is, I don't miss it at all. I'm not a novice with this stuff, but when something happens that I don't understand, it's really important to me to have someone in support who actually knows what to do to. As of now, it's only been five days, but it's been an extremely stress-free five days, and my sites are much faster and I was able to quickly identify the issues that were possibly causing me grief earlier. I hope to post back in a few months time with only good things to say!

And all is resolved. Still not sure I grasp the email snafus - I think I mostly get it, but something still nags at me. It seems like wanting to wait to move domain1 ended up just causing confusion for me. So, both sites are up, functional, *generally* non-flashing although there are occasional blips in the webkit world, which I'll live with. Emails are coming and going properly. I don't think I'll regret the move at all.

Well I think I successfully hacked at twentyeleven so it looks nearly like suffusion did. IE gave me serious grief, but hopefully I can get on with it now. Flashing is minimal to none. Still having the email problem this morning so I opened a ticket. Thanks for being so helpful! It's rough when things stop behaving as I think they should.

Hello, I've completely abandoned suffusion and I'm hacking away at the default twentyeleven. I don't know if it's going to give me what I want so I might be doing this in vain anyway, but it's not flashing, that's for sure. Got your email, and replied. So why can you (and my other email addresses) send me emails, but barajayart cannot send me an email. His website, nameservers, and email stmp stuff all still points to / lives on bluehost. It's weird. I'll contact support tomorrow if I can't function still. I think I opened this MDD account on Monday, maybe swamped the domains Tuesday? Forget already!

Okay I'm back. I did the header.php thing and now Firefox is easy on the eyes, but Chome and Safari are making me sick. It's doing just what that link said it would do - the background stays but the wrapper blips. Gross. But aside from changing the theme (which I'm not sure I'm into at this stage of the game) I don't know what else I can do. I find the blips nauseating, what do you guys think? I also checked my other domain (still on bluehost) on the webkit browsers. It blips too - not the background, just the wrapper. But it's not as offensive because the background is light. It's also not using the suffusion theme. I think lilferd's white blipping on brown is more obvious and jarring than my other domains beige blipping on red/cream/pastels. So maybe that's just... that? Also I removed michelle@lilferd from bluehost and then I had greg@barajayart email me there and this is the bounceback he received: Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. Subject: test Sent: 10/19/2011 1:53 PM The following recipient(s) cannot be reached: 'Michelle <Redacted>' on 10/19/2011 1:53 PM 550 No Such User Here But then I emailed michelle@lilferd from my yahoo account and my lilferd address received the mail. So I might open up a support ticket unless you think I need to wait a few hours for things to sort out or if there's anything else you can think of. Thanks for being so helpful!

Okay for the email issue, keep in mind I'm NOT emailing myself, so it's not like I'm using michelle@lilferd to try to email michelle@lilferd. I'm using michelle@lilferd (on mdd, nameservers redirected, mac mail using mdds stuff) to email greg@barajayart (on bluehost, nameservers still with bluehost, outlook still using bluehosts stuff) and he does not get my emails. But if I use michelle@lilferd and email my fake yahoo address and my other normal email address, then those addresses DO get my email. Same thing happens in reverse. Greg@barajayart emails michelle@lilferd and I don't get those emails, but greg@barajayart emails my other email addresses and his other email addresses and he gets it. I didn't remove michelle@lilferd from bluehost yet. I'm going to do that now and see if anything happens. Also going to investigate the dark background thing. Will report back.

Made a quick video of the flashing I'm seeing. I cleared the cache this morning and it's still doing it: http://www.screencast.com/users/MichelleSE/folders/Default/media/6ae9cbfa-61f3-4cf6-adc5-a8ba799a63d3 My site is lilferd and the whole page, like, loads when I click a link. With that other website, also using Suffusion, it behaves in a way that I would call normal. Michelle

Okay I guess I'll be patient with the email thing, but the reason I'm confused is because both Addon (MDD) and Primary (Bluehost) can email other places and get email from other places, but they can't get email from each other. I feel like that makes no sense. Also I finally moved my addon domain and it's currently making it's way across the internet, but can anyone tell me why it makes those annoying page flashes when you click from link to link? IE does this all the time and I hate it, but when I view my website in Firefox I'm noticing this now too, it didn't do that before. I must be missing something. I'm using wordpress and the suffusion theme if that matters, but I was using that on Bluehost and it didn't blip. The site is lilferd.com. If you see "coming soon" then it hasn't updated for you yet. If you see an actual site, then you're looking at MDD. Thanks again.

Good evening, trying to ask questions here instead of bombarding tech support constantly. I just opened an account here and am in the process of moving my two wordpress websites from Bluehost. I have two domains, one more important than the other. My main domain (the main one I signed up with here) is still on bluehost until I get all the quirks worked out, but I recently redirected the nameservers and changed my email settings for my addon domain because this one is less important and I'm using it to test out the move. I have two questions: 1) Is this going to work? While I understand the two domains are separate, I'm wondering if since I'm fussing with my addon before my primary, if things are going to get jacked somehow. 2) It seems as if, suddenly for some strange reason, PrimaryDomainEmail (still on Bluehosts servers) and AddonDomainEmail (now on MDD) cannot talk to each other. If Primary sends Addon an email, Addon does not get it, if Addon sends Primary an email, Primary does not get it. However Primary and Addon can email the fake yahoo account I have and yahoo can email Primary and Addon. I don't understand this. Thanks, and sorry if these are lame questions.