Silly rant on. My host server had database issues from sometime Monday morning/afternoon until yesterday morning. The issue was totally out of my hands. That used to bother me a lot more than it does now even though my host server would probably have a different notion of that. Considering a hardware upgrade from a shared server to a VPS server. They've come down in price considerably. The main obstacle here is the transfer although I don't need any new expenses, either. The host won't do the transfer for me. I'll never understand that. It seems to me that it would be easier for them to transfer all of the files and directories from one of their machines to another one of their machines. When you transfer large numbers of files via internet like I'd have to do, it's tedious and they get corrupted. Silly rant off.
There are some great expressions used in sports to indicate when the game is essentially over or almost over.
Stick a fork in him. He's done.
It aint over until the fat lady sings.
Turn out the lights. The party's over.
It aint over 'til it's over.
Say goodnight, Gracie.
Add today's QOTD to that list. I had never heard it.
5 song iTune shuffle from the CrabAppleLane Top 25 Most Played:
- On Every Street - Dire Straits - On The Night (LIVE) - 5 plays
- Praan - Garry Schyman & Palbasha Siddique - Where The Hell Is Matt? - 16 plays
- Already Gone - The Eagles - Their Greatest Hits - 5 plays
- A Song of Simplicity - Elijah Bossenbroek - Harmony in Disarray - 8 plays
- Small Town Saturday Night - Hal Ketchum - Past The Point Of Rescue - 8 plays
Quote of the Day
A desperate John Fox turns his lonely eyes to Jimmy Clausen as the QB for the Panthers. I think you can stick four pins in that battleship.
Dave Choate
Blog of the day is here.
Quote from said blog: "A native of rural County Kildare in Ireland, Heidi now calls Edinburgh her home."
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" I think you can stick four pins in that battleship."
I like it.
On the hosting, you would have to pull everything down from one and push it back up to another? I think I can understand the host not wanting to get into the transfer, but I would think they could offer an internal path for you to do it yourself and make it easier for you.
"On the hosting, you would have to pull everything down from one and push it back up to another?"
I had to do that a few times but I wouldn't have to this time. I have the whole website on my PC here and I also have better control of what is stored on the website and where. There are 31 users on the various blogs here and almost all of them have uploaded images. Before February 2007, they were uploaded to the website and they're scattered all over the place. Those pre-Feb2007 images take a beating every time I move now. Because there are so many files and directories involved, I have to upload them in "Automatic mode", which is supposed to use ascii mode for text file extensions and binary mode for all others. "Automatic mode" doesn't work all that well and long uploads don't work all that well so files get corrupted.
I don't know why they can't just copy the whole site to a CD or jump drive and walk over and paste it to the new server. If they're afraid to take responsibility for the files then why should I have any faith in their backups?