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It never ends…
Yeah, some aspects of life are quite Sisyphean.
In this case, hosting this website (and consequently the other stuff I have in the same host)
Yeah, yet another webhost move.
(more…)Another webhost change.
The never-ending saga continues never ending…
This is technically old news as the host change was done a couple of months ago, but I feel like writing a bit.
So, on with the story.
After days of downtime on the stupidly cheap host I was using, I decided to change webhost, for the 1xxth time.
(more…)And with a new host comes…
…a new shitty theme.
So, about 5 years after introducing my theme made with a WP theme generator, I introduce to you my new theme made with a WP theme generator (the same exact one I used last time in fact).
(more…)Boy, do I love changing webhost!
So, I changed webhost again.
I either don’t change anything for years or I’m constantly jumping around webhosts.
This time was because the webhost I was using was supercheap, well the package that I was using was supercheap.
But it only had 1GB of space which considering my other stuff on the host, the backups and all that 1GB was too little.
After a short downtime, the site is back
No one missed it, except for me.
And that’s just fine.
When you get your hosting, make sure it’s not managed by people who already have a questionable history in the world of webhosting.
Suddenly both the shared hosting and my VPS were offline.
Even the VPS control panel was down, seemed like all the company’s servers went dark suddenly.
And after two days they weren’t back on, after some googling I found why.
And again, almost a year of no posts.
Once again I spent months and months without making a single post.
Last time I posted I had recently moved the site to a non free webhost (finally), actually a VPS. By now it’s two weeks until the yearly renewal of the thing.
I did something like that back in 2012-2013 (almost a year and half without posts) and I can’t even remember why I did it back then.
But this time it was because I started writing rants by hand, on notebooks.
And most of them weren’t really suited to post on my blog/site/whatever this is.
Out of some 300 A5 pages, not a single rant was useful for the site.
And guess what!
I moved hosting again.
Might just be temporary, but I decided it was a waste to have a VPS just to serve a dozen hits a month, so I just got a really budget shared hosting with the same company I have the VPS.
I’ll still keep the VPS as it isn’t half bad for the price (1 core@1.6Ghz, 1GB RAM, 20GB hdd for less than USD$15 a year) and probably just install a desktop distro of linux.
I may or may not start posting more often on the site, probably some reviews or something (I said the same thing back in 2014 and 2017)
Time will tell.
And I still haven’t finished my rant about Tokyo Magnitude 8.0.
I’ll never finish it, it has been sitting for 3 years on my drafts folder (2 years originally and then 1 year after my 2017 rewriting of part of it)
See you next post!
Unplanned change
So, there has been a slight unplanned change.
A good change (that’s nice, so unusual), well, good for me not you.
For you the reader it’s pretty much invisible, for me it’s…kinda fun at the very least.
“Move on…what is the change.”
I’ve moved the site to a non-free webhost.
For the first time in a few years. (since at least 2014)
Why is it fun? Well for one less technical constraints.
Only time will tell if that changes anything on the site or not.
I still have some posts to finish writing…and I think I lost the paper sheets where I jotted down the main points I wanted to focus on for at least two of the posts.
But they are coming…slowly.
Yeah, just a little site update. That’s all, see you.
Small tweaks and changes on the site
As the title says.
Fixed the page numbers thingie.
And changed the menu to a drop-down menu which reflects the category hierarchy I want much better.
And that’s all for now, but I have a few posts on the queue.
Some bugs squashed
Since today I had an unusual amount of patience to play with, I decided to fix some quirks the site had (mostly related to the theme)
1- in the left menu it would be hard to sometimes click because the font changed to something slightly smaller on hover. It was changing to italic and bold (which doesn’t quite work), removed italic and kept bold.
2- on the archives the more tag was getting parsed by my smilie plugin due to the “…” and a “)”. Removed that smilie as I didn’t use it.
3- talking about smilies, today (I rarely read stuff months after I write it) I noticed they were being strangely resized to extra tiny (16px x 16px) and I had no inkling of an idea why, turns out it was due to wordpress’ emoji support code that was resizing all emojis and smilies to 1em.
4- some broken links fixed. There might be still some around, I’ll fix them if/when I find them.