Hi webmasters, I have avoided for some years building mobile apps because it's a nightmare... software solutions die, discontinued, or modified in ways that push you to rewrite fully working apps, and this time and effort is not something paid (or understood) by clients. I did enjoy tremendously watching Youtube interviews and testimonials of devs explaining their frustration about this, or how the client asked for an update, they did so, finding the fully working code would not work with the new dev-tool, but the already posted app (at the store) worked perfectly and how they have to take it down, or explain the client "pay for a full rewrite, or don't update".
This is also another thing added to my bag of: "things I tell people, they fail to understand it, think it's not true, and then a year later come back to tell me -you were 100% right-".
On another thread here I just posted how my long lasting and fully working custom CMS is now experiencing difficulties because of new server configurations. Surprisingly via search, found people at the Cpanel forum complaining about imposed changes breaking functionality, or not allowing them to see detailed error reporting, creating situations where errors are masked, so they tell clients "things are fine here, it's your code, your app is broken".
Recently, my websites were fully down for 4 days entirely, the longest in 23 years, and the techs couldn't figure out what's wrong first telling me it was my code, then accepting there were errors taking place at their side and finally fixed everything, this was quite frustrating and experienced this a few times in the last 5 years when companies upgrade the servers because it's a common process, only end up needing tweaks, or find out certain things were not properly installed on their servers, but this was too much now, 4 days, and the challenge of explaining something that seems outside their capacity to grasp and understand.
Lucky me, this current hosting company cooperated, helped me and solved it, but it seems from random, to occasional, these things are here to stay. And I'm not entirely engaged with this as to hire a fully managed server (managed by me), and explaining takes too much energy when people don't have the right experience. To make matters worse, companies advertise "30 days unconditional money back" for new accounts, and yeah, I'm finding this is not true, because trying to do damage control signed up for a hosting account on a new place, things are not working, they even tell me "there are no errors" while the browser keeps saying 500 internal server error, and now play difficult to give me my money back.
I might have to rewrite my CMS, during times when I'm not even sure I want to continue doing web work.
Do you have similar stories?
