sappatoti
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Joined: 10/30/2006 From: the edge of darkness... Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: GhitaAmati Arrrrghhhhhhhh...... ... ....So, do I go out to the store and purchase a different comanies software, rebuild my entire site and begin hosting with them? Or do I suck it up and buy their upgrade with the discout they are giving me? It would be cheaper in the long run to just buy the upgrade, but Im halfway tempted out of spite to stop doing business with them for pulling such a dirty little trick..... Well Ghita, since this is a production site you've got, you should bite the bullet and purchase their upgrade to continue on keeping your site running. However, and if it were me, I'd make that purchase the last one I buy from that vendor. After receiving the upgrade, I'd suggest turning off the automatic version check to prevent this from happening again, and I'd start a new project in determining how I'd go about making my site no longer dependent upon one manufacturer's software product. Data conversion is never a fun thing (I've been through it a number of times... banks... power companies...) but the best scenario would be for your web site to be coded in such a manner that it can be easily imported into any number of tools for you to make the edits. Once the edits are done, the pages and files should be saved back out into standard formats to be uploaded to the site. By turning off the automatic version checking on your current software upgrade, you should be able to buy yourself some additional time in thinking about how to make your site editing easier.
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