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How I switched to Media Temple

In Life on 28 December 2009 tagged Email, IMAP, Media Temple, web hosting, WordPress with 3 comments

I write about a wide variety of topics because I’m not sure when it’ll help someone. This is part 2 of switching web hosts.
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Switching web hosts

In Life on 24 December 2009 tagged Media Temple, MySQL, web hosting, WordPress with no comments

When WordPress 2.9 came out, the minimum requirement for MySQL went up to 4.1.2.

To my dismay, my server was running MySQL 4.0.x. I asked my friend, Eric, if he could upgrade MySQL. But, he doesn’t want to risk breaking the other sites on the server. I don’t blame him.

Who’s Eric? I think we met online during the Cyberwings hosting shenanigans. He’s a genius code developer. After that, I went through a couple web hosts before setting with Eric’s server. We never met and he helped me out for free. It was generous of him.

After 4 years, 3 months, and 5 days¹, I need to move on².

Thanks for the free web hosting, Eric!

Note: Until the switch to the new server, I’ve closed comments on all posts³.

Update 12/25/2009: If you’re reading this, All Narfed Up is now on (mt) servers and updated to WordPress 2.9. Yay! Two more domains to go. When I get those done, I’ll write about how I made the move so smoothly.

Update 12/28/2009: Part 2 is up.

If the hosting cost $5 per month, he saved me $255! ↩
Well, if I want to continue using the latest version of WordPress, I need to switch hosts. ↩
Thanks to Extended Comment Options. ↩

Cascades Waterfall

In Life, Photos on 16 December 2009 tagged California, Cascades Waterfall, Heritage Falls Park, Monterey Park, people with no comments

Taylor and Greg [finished] a sociology class at Mt. SAC. For extra credit, their professor had them view cultural diversity by driving all over Los Angeles County and taking their photo at eight locations.

They invited me to come along a couple months ago. I couldn’t say no. It gave me a chance to procrastinate with homework and studying for finals.

I kept my Amod 3080 GPS data logger on the whole time. Thanks to KML Path Distance, it calculated that we traveled 116.759 miles.

I’ll edit this post and link to the Flickr set when I choose, process and upload my favorites from this day.

For now, I hope you dig this planned shot of these two characters¹ looking at the Cascades Waterfall. I find it quite humorous.

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