on the road

Blog tribulations

Midphase / ANhosting has lost my business because of improbable excuses from their technical support for why their load times are so really really really terrible. In other words, buyer beware. I didn’t get a refund either, even though over a year and a half remains on the account.

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WordCampTV is a snore and a time-waster. Unfortunately, in many cases it’s the only way to learn some things.

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Before installing a plugin I was getting 80 to a hundred attempted comment spam posts – which ended up in my approval que. Now they can’t get through at all, thanks to Bad Behavior and an http:BL access key from Project Honey Pot.

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Earlier today I finished updating my fourth site, and they’re all good to go now. I’m surprised at how little effort it actually took. In the event of problems I had backups, but basically all it amounted to was chasing down a few misguided urls in a database file and re-doing a single page on [...]

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And furthermore, I didn’t screw anything up – as far as I can tell. Propagation may take a little longer since changing DNS last night, but it appears as though everything is working. One site left to do.

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