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I Win

August 27, 2007 2:18 PM

lright! I believe that all of the issues with the blog have been fixed, including the comment issue. I believe it's now possible to comment smoothly. I've just tested the comment thing, and it seems to work fine, so leave comments, people! There are still some problems with the templates not being applied evenly all around, but I'm working on that and it's only an aesthetic issue.

So, I guess I'll tell you the story of why the blog's been more fucked up than normal lately. It all started a long time ago when my commenting system got fucked up. I was way too lazy to deal with it at the time, then I got really busy and knew that I wouldn't possibly be able to deal with it then. I figured that now that I have a little more free time I'd be able to deal with it. I had two choices, as I saw it: I could have either taken the time to actually go through my blog software, find, and correct the problem or I could have taken the easy way out and just wholesale upgrade my blog software which should have, in theory, eliminated the problem. Surprisingly enough, I decided to take the easy way out.

So I started updating the blog software but--of course--it didn't go smoothly. Without getting too technical, various things kept getting fucked up. After dispatching several issues, I was able to get the new software running--sort of. It kept crashing everytime I actually tried to implement it. I tried everything I could on my end to try to get it running, but ultimately I called up my host to see if anything was wrong on their end. After some nonsense, they explained to me that Movable Type 4 simply cannot run on their servers. "What the fuck do you mean?," I asked. The guy explained that the programs takes up more memory than my plan allows me to use, so the program kept crashing. "How much would it cost to upgrade to the next level of memory?" I asked. He told me that it would cost about six times more than my current plan, which is completely fucking ridiculous, as far as I'm concerned.

At this point, this story takes a pseudo-UPS-ian twist. I felt wronged by my host, so I resolved that, no matter how much of a hassle it was, I would ditch them and find a new host. So that's what I did. I found a host that offered to host the site and install Movable Type 4 for me. All I'd have to do is transfer the templates and entries over. And transfer the domain name so that it pointed at the right place. Well, of course, this all took way longer than it should have. And I had to rebuild all of my templates essentially from scratch. Three times. And then the comments wouldn't work. Then they did. Then they didn't again.

But it's all back now for the most part.



2 Comments


RPM said:

You left out the UPS-like twist. You switched providers and then had to crawl back to the old provider because you lost access to the templates.

I'm glad the comments seem to be working.

August 27, 2007 3:08 PM



Santi said:

Computers are fun.

August 27, 2007 6:55 PM



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