Purely Whimsical

But this kind of takes the cake.

It took me about 2 months (it looks like) to get my blog back up after my old server hosting the site crashed. Fortunately, the hard drive was fine, so I was able to recover my data quite easily. All I had to do was

1. Tell my ISP that the mac address for my static IP needed to be changed
2. Recover the databases off of the hard drive (this was harder than I thought it would be)
3. Copy the website data from my old hard drive to the new server
4. Update links since I decided to change it to the ‘blog’ subdirectory

Step 1 took about 15 minutes, due to hold times and other fun. You see, since I work for my ISP, they actually pay for my cable modem. So here’s the conversation I have with the tech support rep:

Tech Support: Could I have your name and your phone number please
Me: My name is >name< and my phone number is ...um (mutters to herself, what IS my phone number?! OH!)>phone number<

Tech Support: Ma’am, there isn’t a cable modem on that account.
Me: I know, ISP is paying for it.

Tech Support: … Ma’am, this IS ISP.
Me: (laughs) Oh, I know! I’m an employee; ISP is paying for the cable modem.

Tech Support: …


Anyway, once we got that all straightened out, life was good.

Step 2 was done at least a month ago, and it took me about 3 hours to figure out how it had to be done. It was kind of fun, but I’m weird that way.

Step 3 was just completed about a half an hour ago. It took me an hour or so to get the server config to work out, I had all kinds of fun little issues, but it’s resolved now.

Later on I realized since I had decided to change it so the blog is in a ‘blog’ subdirectory, I had to update all of the links in my existing posts….. I tried a fancy script but ended up just doing a simple substitute in vi after dumping the table contents for the posts. A technical way to say I fixed the links.. quickly, with minimal typing.

So I’m back! Yay!

.. Oh, and also I have email at the new server, finally..