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March 19, 2005

PK's move - Update

Some of you might have noticed that some of the comments are gone. That's due to the move. Our content was moved earlier today and everything posted after that - most comments and the other update post I'd put up - were lost when our domain name was moved from the old domain host to the new host. Many of the comments made it thru, though. So... that's better than I'd expected an hour ago. I figured everything from this morning was lost.

Special thanks go out to Dave Aiello of Weblog Improvement for his superb technical skills and services in executing the actual move. He has been our hired gun for this move. Frankly, he's worth more than we could afford to pay him. To say that he's the consumate (and competent) professional would be something of an understatement.

I should add that while Dave's Weblog Improvement business specializes in Movable Type and TypePad weblog platforms (both are products of Six Apart, along with the Livejournal weblog platform), it is but one of his IT offerings. He also runs CTDATA which offers comprehensive IT services well beyond just weblogs. And he tells me that they'll soon be offering domain hosting too.

Speaking of domain hosts... A word to the wise: Friends don't let friends host their domains, or anything else, on 0catch.com. That's who was hosting PK this morning. Over the last several months the functionality of our MT platform progressively degenerated due to it's interaction with 0catch.com's server set-up. Exactly why things degenerated, I don't know. All I know is that they did and that it was an endless source of frustration to Carla and I. Note how every single post we've ever put up is listed individually on the sidebar. That came about because of these very problems I'm talking about. At first we had them listed by month, which didn't take up so much space. But, then things degenerated and we had to change to the present set-up just to be able to continue blogging. And even then we had problems. But, at least we were able to limp along. In addition to that, Dave had trouble working with 0catch.com in executing the move too. Moving the content should have taken minutes. Instead it took hours.

Now we're hosted by TotalChoice Hosting, who came very highly recommended. Principally via an informal survey of Movable Type Friendly Web Hosts. Not only does Total Choice Webhosting offer significantly improved functionality, specifically with the MT platform. But, we're now paying 1/3 as much for a comparable hosting plan (bandwidth, storage space, etc.) to what we had with 0catch.com.

Better service... more functionality... less money! Any questions? LOL

Friends don't let friends host their domains, or anything else, on 0catch.com.

Posted by Kevin at March 19, 2005 02:33 PM