Sites on new host

Yesterday I moved this site and boreamerica.com from their previous host (tronictech.com) to their new host (steadfast.net). They'd been at the first for almost two years, but recent visitors may have noticed long periods during which this site was suspended. Rather than dispensing information to an information-starved world, I was left dispensing a "this site has been suspended" banner.

tronictech.com is "unsupported" hosting, meaning that if you need to ask how to do things you have to pay. That suits me since I can usually figure things out by myself. Unfortunately, during this episode I wasn't given the information I needed to determine what the issue could be, and my emails went unanswered for several hours. The first problem was with a comment script, so I went to haloscan for the comments, even though I'd prefer to use on-page comments. The penultimate outage was apparently due to some mt.cgi access which had occured when neither I nor my only remaining MT-related cron job were doing anything. The final outage was due to a rebuild I was doing. I hate Perl, so I have no idea what could be causing these problems, and I wasn't given any information I could use to try to solve them. While some of the problems were apparently due to me, others weren't, and I wasn't able to determine whether that was malicious or just an MT or Perl issue. I still have several sites in two tronictech accounts which I'll probably be moving to other hosts as well.

Eventually I'll be moving this site to Drupal but, since there are thousands of entries here that's going to be a bit of work. There are also several entries that for one reason or another were dropped from MT's database, and those will need to be reimported.

If there are any problems please leave a comment.

Bloggage · Sun, 03/11/2007 - 09:48 · · Importance: 1