Well, it has been an interesting week in the web server arena. I’ll be glad when the transition is over, so I can stop goofing with settings and start actually using things.
Incidentally, this is only the second full post I’ve written on the new server, and I hadn’t even taken the time to appreciate how much snappier everything is. Ahh…
But I have signed up for a couple of hosting services that should hopefully spread resources out and keep my web hosting cheap.
I have one of Microsoft’s higher-end wireless mouses. One of the newer features they’ve incorporated with this one is the tilt wheel that lets you scroll left or right. It doesn’t have all kinds of extra buttons, and the shape of the mouse pleases me.
But the scrollwheel. I hate it. It doesn’t “click” as you scroll; instead, it scrolls smoothly. This has two ill effects. First, it’s very susceptible to something falling into the mechanism and making the wheel tacky, but only in certain radii. So right now I can scroll up smoothly, but as soon as 2 inches of screen goes by, the whole scroll wheel feels like it’s submerged in gummy bear protoplasm. But that’s nothing compared to the other annoyance.
Well, you’re looking at the new server.
Most of the plugins from the old site aren’t even installed any more. So there is a lot of stuff not working.
One of the things I’m working on is the theme that you’re looking at. It’s not quite ready for public consumption, but I don’t want to put anything else on here, so I’ll be motivated to fix it to my satisfaction.
The server isn’t dead. You would think this is good news.
I have arranged for everything here to move to a new server, as soon as they configure it, with TextDrive. That should be quite a bit more reliable than what I’ve got here. This is the fourth time in three months that the server has simply died for no reason. I never had this kind of trouble at EV1, even when I was on Windows 2003.
With this transfer comes a new hosting philosophy: I’m parcelling out my web services.