Well, we decided to make the move. Edwin’s host checking thingy was telling us that our hold hosting service, Bluehost, kept going down during the day. My RootBSD server, on the other hand, had excellent uptime. So after the email equivalent of a huddle, we agreed: adios Bluehost.
I had written a good post in anticipation of our easy transition and great success. Alas, that was not to be. I jumped the gun with changing the DNS, and Joe couldn’t export the old blog. So we all learned some lessons from the experience.
- Backup your shit before you do ANYTHING.
- Tell everyone involved what you’re doing BEFORE you do it.
These are lessons that we should have learned at our jobs, but you know how nerds are. We think we’re invincible. (PLUS people at my job haven’t learned this lesson, so they keep making the same mistakes over, and over, and over.)
But after all that, I’m ready to officially declare the new sector930.com a success.
So congratulations, all 2 of our readers. We broke our blog just for you, and probably made it harder for us in the meantime. But rest assured, we are working around the clock to deliver top notch information, insight, and advice on whatever it is we write about on this blog.
On a more technical note: redirects are fun and easy with Apache. Here is an example.
<IfModule alias_module>
Redirect permanent /index.html http://www.sector930.com/blog
</IfModule>
So if you ever wanted to know, there it is.
Have a great day.
XOXO
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