Pacificspirit.com has completed it's move to a new host and I think things are mostly complete. There's a bit more work to be done but the important things are good to go.
I lost about 3 weeks of entries, which for me since the kids is about 3 entries :-) Movable type crashed when upgrading and I had to use an export that I made in early January. Then I had to refigure out the configuration - why on earth would MT decide to use 15 max chars for basename????
I've been gradually getting more and more disappointed by uniserve's hosting service and this was really poor service. I've been with them since 1996, which is an eternity in this web world.
Apparently that freaky program movabletype crashed the server twice. The logs from uniserve tech support are meaningless. Basically says perl running mt.cgi is the problem.
Here's the chronology:
Friday: MT 3.33 crashes server, server disabled. I'm called by tech support at about 5pm. Tech support closed for weekend.
Monday: New MT 3.34 installed, tech support informed
Tuesday: Tech support emails back saying it should be up in 24-48 hours
Friday AM: Site back up
Friday 5:15 PM: MT 3.34 crashes server, site disconnected again. Remember tech support closed for the weekend.
Monday: New message to tech support suggesting maybe I'm getting comment spam DOS attacked, I'll turn comments off.
Monday: Tech support says, we'll see.
Tuesday: Tech support pinged, no answer
Thursday: Tech support pinged with urgency, no answer:
Friday: decide on new host
Monday/Tuesday: move and test blog.
Wednesday (tomorrow): tell uniserve to stop billing me.
I decided on textdrive, a local company and the same folks I use for vancouvertwins.ca. Much better rates and storage. The one thing I don't like so far is that they only support SFTP. I love using Super Flexible File Synchronizer with remote sites because it does a pretty good job of comparing timestamps. But SFFS doesn't do SFTP.
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