What with OW going bye-bye in 3 weeks, I figured I should remove any OW servers from my domains - things like secondary MX and DNS. I could just use Morgins (colo in Manchester) and Avoriaz (ADSL in my house), but ADSL is not to stable and Avoriaz gets turned off now and then when people stay over and turn it off so they can sleep (fair enough!). So, I needed someone that did secondary stuff. I read UKNOT and Gradwell.com gets mentioned a bit so I had a look. They do slave DNS and MX relaying for up to 50 domains for 20quid+VAT a year. I couldn’t argue, so signed up. I have to say it was the smoothest on-line technical thing I have done in ages and apart from them not making it clear which IP I needed to allow transfer from (its in the FAQs but they could stick it on the set-up page) I can’t fault it. So now I have nice secondaries and I can remove OW (well, I could if 123-Reg would answer emails!).
Speaking of 123-Reg, they suck. Since they got bought by Pipex they have restructured they now never answer the phone and take up to two weeks to reply to basic support requests (like removing a 5th name server. Their on-line system only deals with up to 4). I will be moving my domain registrations to Gradwell ASAP I think, before the rooting carcass (a quote from UKNOT) creates too much gas and explodes sending maggots everywhere. Sorry to be graphic, but its a good analogy! 
In other news, a US ISP I’m working with for a client is telling me LVS doesn’t work how I want - they thus suck. I am right damn it, so I am setting up LVS at home to prove I am indeed as correct as the documentation 
The script on the upgrade page, which makes the APACHE_OPTIONS line for make.conf, cocks up and puts dashes instead of underscores, and also misses some basic options you will want, like auth_basic. In the end I got it sorted, though not after spending a good 15 mins wondering why all pages produced an error 403… seems I needed a <Directory /> Allow from all</Directory> directive that I had never had. Why this is needed in 2.2 and not in 2.0 I know not. Odd.