[2006] Changed host

If you’re seeing this post, that means that the DNS changes have propogated and you’re now viewing steelypips.org at its new host. Things ought to work exactly the same as at the old host, so if they don’t, drop a comment or an e-mail to let me know what the problem is.

Sorry for all the downtime. There are several backdated entries originally posted on my LiveJournal below this post.

A brief note on the problems and the switch is below the cut.

This site had been hosted by affordablehost.com for the last several years. It was sold fairly recently, and when steelypips’s shared server went down two weeks ago, I was not happy with the response of its support staff. Anyone can have a bad run of luck with hardware and bugs, but a week into the problems, I submitted a support ticket saying, “almost 24 hours ago, you posted a news item saying that MySQL would be fixed in 15-20 minutes. That news item hasn’t been updated and MySQL isn’t working for me; is this just me, or are there wider problems going on here?

I got back a response saying “check the news item”—which, note, had still not been updated.

That’s when I started looking for a new host.

(The former management of affordablehost.com, under which I’d been perfectly happy, is now running AxisHost.com. I ultimately decided to go elsewhere, but I feel reasonably confident that I would have been happy going with AxisHost as well.)

Steelypips.org is now hosted by HostGator.com. They were very prompt in setting up the account. The delay in getting transferred over is attributable, first, to waiting for the old site to come back up long enough to get some files off it (yes, I had been lax about whole-site backups, and since two of us upload files to it, I didn’t have all the relevant directories in one place), and second, to ironing out some minor Movable Type issues caused by the transfer.

There may be a short period in which following links within this blog takes you to an IP address rather than a domain name; that will be temporary, and those links should work as bookmarks regardless. Any other oddities, please let me know.

Some implementation notes have been added to the original relaunch post, mostly for my own convenience.