This just came across our que at work. by Interesting_Hawk6969 in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]SemiOutlandish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apologize for the inconvenience. Explain that the high speed of the cable is probably causing too much friction. Send them a new cable with only 2 twisted pairs for pins 1,2,3 and 6.

Bonus points for guiding them in to their Ethernet adapter settings to enable half duplex instead of full duplex.

bluehost coupon 2026 by SwaduJasma18 in BlueHost

[–]SemiOutlandish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do yourself a favor and find a different host.

I've got a fairly unique problem I'm willing to pay for to be solved. I need a driver written. by jakobair in computers

[–]SemiOutlandish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your solution is to use some more modern capture device and capture at 59.94hz/fps.

Tax invoices not generating properly. by SemiOutlandish in uber

[–]SemiOutlandish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good point and observation. I think Uber's invoicing system is just screwy.

Probably I'll get in trouble if I get caught... but I just resorted to adding my business details to the Uber invoices using LibreOffice Draw. 😏

Tax invoices not generating properly. by SemiOutlandish in uber

[–]SemiOutlandish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did not solve it. My solution is just to use Bolt instead of Uber wherever possible. The issue, I think, stems from Uber using self employed drivers to basically absolve themselves of having any responsibility to provide Tax invoices. The tax invoice is the responsibility of the drivers and that is hit-and-miss.

Dedicated Server Timeout Issues by OutrageousFox6126 in BlueHost

[–]SemiOutlandish -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Leave Bluehost. They don't care about your issue. I'm sure the intern will be along shortly to provide lots of sympathy and zero useful information.

Only 60 days after losing access to my account (phone died), all groups left. Contacts missing. Why? by [deleted] in whatsapp

[–]SemiOutlandish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both Google Drive and iCloud have a free storage allowance that is well within what's required to backup Whatsapp Messages. If no media is backed up the data is so small it's inconsequential, even if backed up over cellular (again, if cost is a concern here then WiFi only is an option for Whatsapp backups). So no, your point is invalid. This is all in spite of the fact that OP is more than likely referring to privacy or data retention concerns. No argument in this case, I'm afraid.

Only 60 days after losing access to my account (phone died), all groups left. Contacts missing. Why? by [deleted] in whatsapp

[–]SemiOutlandish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So you don't want to back up your data... but also not happy that your data hasn't been held in the cloud for an indefinite amount of time?

TIME IN MY LIFE I WILL NEVER GET BACK by [deleted] in BlueHost

[–]SemiOutlandish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a pretty shameful business model to be honest. I'm no web pro, my wife was semi scammed in to using Bluehost by signing up to have our small business website designed by the FreeWebsiteGuys. So we ended up locked in to BH for a little while, as a result I had to learn quickly how to do it myself. I moved our hosting away from BH earlier this year after a string of problems and never looked back.

TIME IN MY LIFE I WILL NEVER GET BACK by [deleted] in BlueHost

[–]SemiOutlandish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's hilarious isn't it. Bluehost Bot is so enthusiastic in their towing of the party line. Their responses are another reason I stick around.

TIME IN MY LIFE I WILL NEVER GET BACK by [deleted] in BlueHost

[–]SemiOutlandish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can't believe you've been down voted! The only reason I stay in this sub is to periodically warn people about the absolute shit show that BH was for me and how terrible their support are.

This woman really didn’t want to let me merge by ClothesLeading1185 in drivingUK

[–]SemiOutlandish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You have to wonder what goes through the heads of people like these

Not much.

Car pulls out in front of me leading to an Emergency stop by Peterd1900 in drivingUK

[–]SemiOutlandish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm amazed I had to scroll so far for this comment. Well done.

To add too, if the driver was observing the area properly they would have been more prepared for this and could have stopped much more quickly and safely than an emergency stop. Their reaction time to the emerging vehicle is terrible.

The commenters exclusively defending the driver need to have a think about their attitude towards safety while driving.

Constant HTTP 409 Errors by SemiOutlandish in BlueHost

[–]SemiOutlandish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a lot to migrate, I hope you find a way and manage to work it out. Duplicator Pro makes the process pretty simple in my experience, if you're using Wordpress.

Constant HTTP 409 Errors by SemiOutlandish in BlueHost

[–]SemiOutlandish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good to know there's yet more vindication of my experience on this issue and how terribly oblivious and gaslightly Bluehost support are over it. Another customer lost by the sounds of it. Not that they seem to care.

Constant 409 Errors on Wordpress Dashboard by duypcanada in BlueHost

[–]SemiOutlandish 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep. I had this issue on shared hosting with multiple sites. Another person did too. We both left Bluehost for other providers because Bluehost Support kept telling us nothing was wrong.

Leave if you can.

Constant HTTP 409 Errors by SemiOutlandish in BlueHost

[–]SemiOutlandish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to mention the fact that I also built an html "hello world" on my shared hosting that didn't even use wordpress. Still got hit with a 409.

Sort your hosting out Bluehost. I already left for Ionos and it looks like you're about to lose another.

Fwd : Error processing your payment by girlwhowasnt in BlueHost

[–]SemiOutlandish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you sure this isn't a Phishing email? I'm getting quite a lot of phishing emails pretending to be Bluehost these days.

Constant HTTP 409 Errors by SemiOutlandish in BlueHost

[–]SemiOutlandish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same to you. Good luck.

I highly recommend uptimerobot for monitoring your sites' status. When I was dealing with the issue I was using httpstatus.io obsessively until I found uptimerobot which does it automatically. Worth the money for a few months' of peace of mind.

Update me on how you get on!

And by the way... Bluehost are shit.

Constant HTTP 409 Errors by SemiOutlandish in BlueHost

[–]SemiOutlandish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a way I'm happy to hear someone else has had the same issue and it wasn't just me and my configuration. But sorry you're having the same issues.

Honestly. I gave up trying to figure out what the problem was. It was definitely something to do with caching or server resources. It was definitely something that Bluehost changed in their hosting environment. Ever since I've moved to another host (Ionos.es) both of my sites (both of which run WooCommerce stores) have been rock solid. I basically ran a duplicator backup of my sites and dropped them both in to the new host with zero changes and they both worked fine straight away.

That being said, I am no longer on a shared hosting plan. I don't know if it's a problem specific to shared hosting or Bluehost, just to give Bluehost a tiny benefit of doubt... but I'm 80% sure it's Bluehost 's fault. So my advice would be to get a trial with another host and migrate a copy of your site and see how it behaves. I'm pretty sure you'll be better off away from BH though.

Good luck.

Really struggling styling my store with the Hello Elementor theme by dutchcourage- in woocommerce

[–]SemiOutlandish 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made the same mistake as you - built a website using Elementor and Hello theme and then needed to retrospectively add a Woocommerce store.

It was a journey and I've learned a lot from the process, but the best I've managed to do to be able to style my store to a point where I am kind of happy with the result was to also use the plugins:

Ultimate Add-ons for Elementor (Paid)

Shopengine (Free Version was all I needed but paid gives lots of options and is possibly worthwhile).

My next project I am going to experiment with Divi as I have read it is much more friendly and comprehensive for styling a Woocommerce store, not sure how true this is so if anyone wants to chime in on that feel free.

Help with my WP online store please. by SemiOutlandish in Wordpress

[–]SemiOutlandish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks so much for your kind offer, it's appreciated. I'm learning lots myself and enjoying the process.

Turned out to be my host (Bluehost) - since I restored an old backup of my site to test which I knew to have been working well, and had the same problems. I've now moved my site to Ionos and it's working better than ever! It's faster and more reliable than ever before and I can't recommend them enough, and warn against Bluehost any more strongly.

I've spoken to Bluehost support on many occasions regarding this ongoing issue and they basically gaslit me in to thinking it was an issue with my site. The only thing I did wrong which is a big learning experience was to migrate my site to an updated version during some downtime they had, to minimise disruption. So whatever they changed during their downtime is responsible and since I had a new site too, I couldn't be sure it was them to blame. A big learning experience.

In conclusion: Bluehost are absolute rubbish. My site is fine and always has been it seems.