Just before the New Years holiday I moved this site to a new web host, Linode. I’ve been with Slicehost for just over two years and don’t have any complaints and think they’re great. There’s an interesting thread on the Slicehost forum about how other vendors have matched and exceeded Slicehost’s offerings. In the thread even Slicehost has admitted they stagnated and haven’t taken advantage of the resources available to them through Rackspace which purchased them about a year ago. That’s part of my reason for shopping around, the same [...] Read the rest »
We’ve Moved
If you’re seeing this then the DNS change has propagated and you’ve found our new home. I’d been planning to move to a new host in the near future due to intermittent problems with Bluehost. Then a couple days ago I suffered a 7+ hour outage due to server problems. I had already done a full backup of everything which I had intended to use for testing. But rather than testing with it I used it to do the move. Things are likely to be rough around the edges so [...] Read the rest »
Site Outage
The OS Quest went down yesterday and stayed down for over 12 hours. It appears I had some database corruption that began with a hosting problem. Seems like everything is almost back to normal now although there may be some problems lurking in the shadows. One problem is that the menu bar to the pages is missing, still working on that although any page links in the articles will still work. Seems like there was some corruption in the WP database that began around when Bluehost reported a problem with [...] Read the rest »
Bluehost: Upgrading to PHP 5
Since development of PHP 4 ended in 2007 it’s time to finally move on to PHP 5. This website is hosted by Bluehost and they provide the PHP installation, so there’s nothing for me to actually install. Bluehost provided the ability to determine which version of PHP I want to use on my site through a Cpanel setting. All sites running under the same Cpanel account have to use the same PHP version. To pick the PHP version on Bluehost click the PHP Config icon in the Software/Services section of [...] Read the rest »
The OS Quest is now Redoable
Over the past weekend I migrated this site to the Redoable theme by Dean Robinson. I wasn’t looking for a theme to redo this site, but I was browsing through some WordPress related blogs and came across the Redoable theme and it just caught my eye. The design was nice and clean and I liked it visually. But as I looked into it I realized it was more than just eye candy. It’s as well thought out technically as it is visually and it included a several features I was [...] Read the rest »
Frustrations Follow Upgrade
I’m pretty happy with the way the upgrade went. The Bluehost outage was the only real problem. But like any other upgrade there’s always seems to be a few annoying but not terribly painful problems. These are the ones I’ve run into so far. Search – Articles don’t appear in search results until I save them again. This is for both the search box on the website and the post search in the admin console. This is less of a problem for me than it could have been. I’m implementing [...] Read the rest »
Site Update
Latest Update: I’ve gone through all the posts and fixed the most obnoxious formatting errors. I’ve now tagged and updated all posts. As regular visitors to the site have already realized I’ve updated the site design. I’ll be making further updates for the next 24-48 hours. You’ll also notice that the formatting of some articles is strange to say the least, so I’ll be going through and cleaning them up. Those of you who get the feed may notice old articles getting marked as new or updated. There’s no actual [...] Read the rest »
Site Upgraded to WordPress 2.2
I finally got around to upgrading this site to WordPress 2.2. It took me so long to get to it (it was released May 16th) that the Fantastico scripts at Bluehost were updated and I used them to do the upgrade. The last time I upgraded manually but only beat Fantastico by two days. After my experience with Yahoo, where then didn’t update their install scripts the entire time I was there, I’m impressed with Fantastico’s speedin updating their scripts. There was really only one problem (at least that I’ve [...] Read the rest »
Settling Into Our New Home
The OS Quest has moved into it’s new home. We’re still settling in. It would be nice if there weren’t any broken links but our expectations are realistic. If you find a broken links and want to report it please send and e-mail to. Read the rest »
Don’t Test = Get Burned/Do Test = Get Burned
I had two problems with this site this morning. In the first I got burned for not testing something, in the second I got burned even though I tested. You’ll notice that the “OS News and Rumors” box that I mentioned here is now gone. When I added the YouTube videos here the formating of my site got all screwed up. Now, I had never embedded a YouTube video before so I did it on my test site first. It worked fine, no problems. I cut and paste into the [...] Read the rest »
