I told you so

Anyone who works with computers long enough knows that you have to make backups. Backups of everything. Backups of backups. I was up until about 3AM the other night trying to get my gallery running right again. My control panel, like most computers or programs I come into contact with, was having issues and although I tried, it would not properly back up my albums. So, when I lost my patience and said, "To hell with it!" and reinstalled my gallery, I knew I was going to have to re-upload all of my pictures (Yes, I have learned a little. I have all of the originals on my machine, with redundant backups on hard drive and DVD).

What spoiled any hopes of joy was that my brand-new installation of Gallery had the exact same issues with resizing images that the old installation did. This means the issue was related to my web host provider (who I am now convinced I need to change after 7 faithful years and continually degrading service - screw you Aplus.net!!) and that I am back to square -30. I now have to recustomize my gallery and upload all the photos and organize them again, assuming they can find and fix the problem (ImageMagick?) with the graphics toolkits and/or PHP. Maybe they could finally fix it so it doesn't take 60 seconds to load (it used to only take 4)! As long as I'm starting over, I might as well jump to a new host provider. I just hate the idea of spending several hours reading reviews on hosting providers and trying to figure out which ones (reviews) aren't fake. It's easier to just lick my wounds and whine about it. Waaah.