Migs, the high priest of Linux and server administration, whom I always look to for advice on such things, told me to write about my latest hosting issues and so I shall. I suppose this is a good way to talk and archive the recent problems I'd been having with the sites and what I [...]
I have a laundry list of things to do on my websites. I do not have the time to do them, and so I am looking for someone with some experience to do them for me.
Sample jobs are: update wordpress, re-activate some domains, update some plugins, check consistency with Internet Explorer, deal with my host [...]
From the server grease monkeys at my host:
Hi Gabriel, I logged into your server to investigate the problem and I've found that
you're in dangerous territory concerning memory:
> root@exchange:~# free -m
> total used [...]
Warning, highly techie post. All those looking for my usual touchy feely posts please move along now, nothing to see here. Just documenting a disaster of a Permalinks error on Wordpress below, which I posted at the Wordpress Forum. Posting it below again to document it, to help anyone who has to go through same [...]
John Roberts of OpenDNS was kind enough to drop by to educate my behind on OpenDNS' ability to refresh their cache, and consequently pointed me to cache.opendns.com, where I found the culprit!
I cleared that out, and apparently only Kikay had that problem. Mom, Basketball, Movie and the rest were ok. After checking them all [...]
Day 2 of the big server move is highlighted by three issues.
Turns out php's default 8mb allocation was the culprit when I was doing stuff like accessing wp-admin's pages and it was returning white empty pages. I bumped it up to 16mb. and immediately, that wasn't enough too. So I bumped it up to [...]
wish me luck!
update: as of 17:46 I've managed to upload everything, and finally changed the DNS entries to point to my new host. Although the recommended waiting period is 12 hours it should probably be ok before midnight. Meanwhile I'm gonna get a beer and rest a bit. That was a solid 8+ hours of [...]
If you entered Pisces-iscariot on your browser, or otherwise clicked a link going to Pisces-iscariot, please don't adjust your sets. This is now my new blog, which I've moved to partly to separate my personal blog from the Exchange.ph domain and partly to practice the eventual migration of the Exchange.ph domain and subsequent websites to [...]
Yup. Bored as hell. So I made one while listening to the Beastie Boy's Intergalactic.
Sigh. As if I didn't have anything else better to do. hOkay back to work. Merry Christmas everyone!
