Server issues
Mr webhost did some serious upgrades recently, so some stuff went bonkers or were missing a few days ago, but I believe most of the issues have been resolved. The extreme slowness of the connection from here to Malaysia due to the link breakage didn’t help much either. :(
If you’re on a spherebox hosted site and have any issues with your WordPress installation, let me know..

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