Technical Difficulties. Please stand by.
The problems with the previous host of iamPariah.com just won’t end!
On Monday, 3 January 2005, the DNS name server change, the move from the old host to the new one, became effective. Thereafter, it should have just been a matter of waiting a day or so for all the servers around the world to be informed of, and to accept, the change in the location of iamPariah.com.
At 30 hours the change hadn’t propogated enough for me to reach my new server despite the fact that it and my ISP both reside on the same backbone. This, I was told, can happen when an older, popular domain is moved. Because iamPariah.com is linked to from domains and servers all around the world, its old location was well-known to those servers and cached; it would take time for the new address to take effect.
Around hour 40 I was suddenly able to connect to my new server, though the connection seemed tenuous. Certain sections of the site, certain URLs on the domain, went to the new server, others to the old. Checking e-mail through Outlook one minute connected to the new server; in the next minute an e-mail check errored out because it was accessing the old server. It alternated like this all evening.
At 10PM PT (hour 45 after the DNS change) everything switched back to the old server. A quick investigation revealed that that was the time the old host flushed its DNS name server–re-establishing its claim to my domain name despite my instructions.
With the connections flipping between the new and the old servers, I can’t get the new one updated correctly. Nor can I check e-mail.
If you’re reading this, I’m working on it. Please bear with me while I work to resolve the hosting difficulties.
Well, I’m not sure if the work is all done yet, but I can tell you that it seems much faster than it used to be. Happy New Year, Pariah!
It seems to all be working very well at this point.
I noticed you finally got the coveted “Nice Guy” certification. Congratulations!
;-)
Sam.
God! I havent’ read a fresh comment on this blog in oufr months! That’s how long it has been since the old host’s systems began breaking things–the first being commenting.
It’s so good to read your voices!
Happy New Year!
Thanks, fl0w3r and Sam. It is WAY faster when the server is actually maintained. :-)
WordPress helps. So does the fact that the site code is half the weight it used to be since I rebuilt the site from scratch in pure XHTML and CSS.
Welcome back pariah! It’s good to see you back blogging! Love Your little tune up there too.. Hee hee.. Oh and HAPPY NEW YEAR from New Zealand!
One thing I’ve found so far is that when I let my cursor hover over the individual article titles is that a tooltip comes up reading thusly:
“Float Guts Row 1 Column 1and2”
Which sounds somewhat yucky. ;-)
Eeek! That’s structural markup (comments) on the homepage. I see it too, but I don’t have the tools with me on the road to fix them.
Damn. It’ll have to wait until I get home in a couple of weeks.
Thanks for pointing that out, though.
As you can probably tell, the homepage is still under construction. I had hoped to have it finished before I left for Texas, but pro writing priorities had to take precedence over personal writing priorities.