All Narfed Up words (and some photography pre-2010) by Bryan Villarin

Posts Tagged ‘web hosting’

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.