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  • Two shells, a truck and a citrus fuit

    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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  • 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 […]

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  • 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.