Moved!!!

No posts for the past three days because I finally got totally fed up with Live​host​.net.? Appar­ently they have been sub­ject to a num­ber of virus attacks, and sites hosted by them have been hacked more fre­quently than the norm.? Com­bine that with the email prob­lems (my emails from GlassHaven being rejected by Com­cast, Bell­south, and Clear­wire for abuse by other users of the mail server) and enough was enough.? Time to move!!!

I set up a new host­ing pack­age through Cru­cial Web Host on Mon­day; once the account infor­ma­tion came through yes­ter­day I set things up and started mov­ing files over.? Art of the Fire­bird first, because that was just mov­ing files; then this blog and my mail­ing lists, which meant mov­ing data­bases.? Once they were pretty much okay and I was pretty sure I knew what I was doing, I moved the GlassHaven.? That was the real tricky job — a data­base setup and soft­ware install from scratch, fol­lowed by replac­ing the default data­base with the old one from the old host, plus mak­ing sure all the other files got trans­ferred over.? Do this with­out los­ing data, and with min­i­mal down­time — quite a goal, but I think I hit it pretty well.? TGH was down for less than an hour, in the mid­dle of the night, so Anas­ta­sia was pretty much the only one who noticed!

It’s taken the site loca­tion changes most of the day to prop­a­gate through the DNS sys­tem, but they finally seem to be get­ting them­selves cor­rected.? I was able to set up redi­rects at the old loca­tion to get peo­ple to the new one, so there wasn’t any scream­ing para­noia from the board going down.? Really — I think this whole move was a pretty nicely han­dled lit­tle tech­ni­cal chal­lenge if I do say so myself!