dvsmith.net has changed servers. After a couple of very long weeks of practically zero connectivity via my “business class” Road Runner connection, I finally gave up on my principle that dvsmith.net would always be self-hosted. (Gee, thanks, Time Warner Cable, I’d only been striving for that since 1997.) Now, the site lives on A Small […]
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Dude, You’re Totally Harshing My (Google) Buzz
Absolutely, 100% by accident, I managed to discover that my server had fallen victim to an interesting SQL/PHP injection attack. I began to notice some odd search traffic that resulted in one or two hits to both of the sites on this server and decided to Google the hostnames to see what the results were. […]
I think I need a new server
I’ve been proudly self-hosting dvsmith.net for many years, but a number of recent server hiccups (including a new mystery gremlin that brings Apache to its knees every 22-24 hours) and the absolutely awful quality of Time Warner’s “Business Class” RoadRunner service, have convinced me that it’s time to move to an off-site host. The requirements […]
Up and Running
Well, I’ve upgraded to 10.6.x, which trashed my MySQL install, ripped-out and replaced MySQL by hand, upgraded to WordPress 3.0.x and manually hacked the multisite function to enable multiple domains (you’re looking at one of them, right now). I’m still trying on a couple of different baseline themes, from which I’ll build a custom child.
Time is relative
For only the last 4 years, this site has welcomed visitors with this message: Well, guess what? dvsmith.net is alive.