Elbow Grease
August 2nd, 2005Or rather, I’m up to my elbows in template migration and whatnot.
On the Tech Fu situation:
Last night I was able to log into to the regular MT install on 3hive. I then exported everything. I also did a MySQL dump.
Tonight, I’ve installed Movable Type 3.2 in a separate directory and imported through the Movable Type interface the old entries. I’m in the middle of re-categorizing Labels, Genres and creating top level categories. I’m embracing subcategories in the hopes I can eliminate the Filter Categories plugin. The Navotron depends on that plugin, but I think I can get the same functionality without it… I may be insane.
I decided against a MySQL migration using Movable Type 3.2 because I think that the original database might be jacked.
I’ll keep you posted. Bear in mind, I have a very busy day job, otherwise I’d have spent the past two days working on this and been all blogtacular about it. 3hive is a side project, people.
The speed difference between WordPress and Movable Type in taking existing categories and making them subcategories is negligible. Both of the interfaces don’t provide for migrating dozens upon dozens of categories under another one easily. It’s clicking, waiting, clicking waiting for each category. Hopefully, this will only happen once.
More later, dudes.
UPDATE: Holy Shit! I just got locked out! I can’t log in to EITHER Movable Type installation on my host. IT HAS TO BE THE SERVER. And I’m guessing the Perl installation on the server. o
August 2nd, 2005 at 9:44 pm
Ohhh yeah. The day job. Gets in my way of being blogtacular, all the time! Good luck with everything and if its any consolation, I am running my site as well as two client sites on MT 3.2 right now and so far, so good. No major glitches or anything. (fingers crossed)
August 3rd, 2005 at 6:56 am
You’re talkin’ geek again, my friend. But it’s okay. We love ya anyway. Hope all gets sorted out. I DO understand “locked out”. Not good.
…and that day job, thing, geez…always gettin’ in the way…
August 3rd, 2005 at 7:33 am
I’m running MT 3.2b1 and have a weird behavior that happens sometimes. Every few clicks I’ll get a 403 error. I wait 30 seconds, try again, and all is good. Then, a few minutes later, it happens again. Wish I could figure it out.
August 3rd, 2005 at 7:58 am
Like I said, Perl gives me the creeps. There are too many ways for one installation to differ from another installation while still appearing to be the same. It’s not an environment that I can trust enough to use for something as large and complicated as a CMS.
I know you don’t have any control over that because Six Apart chose Perl and that’s never going to change and everyone can just pound sand if they don’t like it. I can still make snarky remarks about it, though. If not for Perl, I’d probably be using MT myself.
I’ll shut up now.
August 3rd, 2005 at 8:34 am
I prefer to think of my day job as “that annoyance that prevents me from bloggin’ 24 hours a day.”
(and if you work with me, and you read this: JUST KIDDING! I LOVE MY JOB!)
I rassle with enough code at work. I’m just as happy to be blissfully ignorant and publish to Blogger when I get home. Haven’t worked up the balls to move to MT yet…
August 3rd, 2005 at 5:06 pm
I just read Heather’s 18 month letter to Leta. I’m in tears. I so wish I could be so eloquent, so observant in the moment with my children. Leta is so very blessed to have you as her mom WOMAN! bless you and yours!
August 3rd, 2005 at 7:01 pm
So d’ya get back in?
August 3rd, 2005 at 7:33 pm
Um… I so didn’t understand anything you just said. I guess I’d better stick to being a social worker.
Good luck on the side project. My current side project is finishing off a 5th of Knob Creek.
August 3rd, 2005 at 9:07 pm
Dude,
You need to understand that some of us live vicariously through Blurbomat whilst at work as Heather uses to many faecal related words that it gets blocked by Webmarshal. So, while I have come to obsess over your site as much as that of your wife, and have grown to love you dearly because:
a) you look a lot like Jason Lee
b) you remind me of my hubbie who puts up with had-baby-will-go-crazy-now wives like me and all the unrelated melodrama we like to fill our lives with
c) you love your life and family and are not ashamed or embarrased to sing it from internet-equivalent rooftops
you’ve got to give us some warning when you’re gonna start geek-speaking. I know its important to you and hell, its your site so you write whatever you like, but I think my eyes are bleeding.
August 3rd, 2005 at 9:55 pm
Mark, nope, still locked out. And not one word from iPower support.
August 3rd, 2005 at 10:48 pm
Sounds like what you need is a shot of Knob Creek. I’d run my bottle over to ya, but SLC’s, like, a 13 hour drive from Tacoma.
August 4th, 2005 at 1:15 am
I wish I could offer you more than what I have to say, and I thought of saying this many times before but held off. Your design knowledge is far superior to mine, but I’ve been active in the web hosting industry for many years.
I believe your host is at fault on this one. I was always amazed you used them, a host know for mediocre services and support.
I can only suggest Site5 for a site with space and bandwidth requirements such as yours. When I have a client that will use 50 GB of bandwidth, even when I charge them a huge monthly fee, I place them at Site5 instead of on one of my dedicated servers. They’re at LiquidWeb’s datacenter and have been in business since 1999. They have an impeccable history, I can expect their support to answer within an hour, usually minutes.
Moving hosts isn’t easy, but you have to weigh whether it’s worth the time instead of dealing with constant issues.
August 4th, 2005 at 8:28 am
I’m so glad that you’re keeping 3-hive up and working. I became a huge fan of that site a long time ago. Where would I find the music that keeps me cool in my thirties without you guys?
August 4th, 2005 at 9:20 am
Honored,
When I first started using iPower they were much better than hosts I’d used in the past. And I’ve had little to complain about. They have been cheap and I’ve only had a few hours of weirdness with this site over the course of a couple of years. I’ve referred a ton of friends to them, but lately, it seems like things have gotten worse.
Over the past 10 years, I’ve watched small hosting companies with excellent service grow and either become horrible or sell to a horrible company. I’ve seen this half a dozen times. With the automation of hosting software, and the cheapening of plans, it has seemed that it doesn’t really matter who hosts your site.
I’m rethinking this. I’ll continue to post of the 3hive/iPower saga. If we can’t fix it on iPower, we’ll be moving.
The other thing is that you seem to think we host mp3s on 3hive. We do not. We merely find music by artists we think is good and they have legally available mp3s for download.
August 4th, 2005 at 11:02 am
I have two sites with ipower, and have been very unhappy with the support over the last year. It was only after threatening to leave did I get any real assistance.
It seems they may have just gotten to big to support their customer base, unfortunately.
If you do switch, or find a host with decent rates and service - do post.
August 4th, 2005 at 2:25 pm
Ok i just have to say 1 thing Paris hilton is ma favorite person ever im upssesd (but not lyk in a weird way ) she is beautiful people say i look lyk her (except i dun got her nose) she da best person alive i have da excaxt personaltit nd looks so shut up who hate her i dun kare about any oder star only paris hilton angelina jolie is pretty but paris is better so all u haters shut up
August 5th, 2005 at 12:13 pm
Uhmm, have you tried Holy Water? If not that then maybe some widdershins action would be in order.
August 5th, 2005 at 7:42 pm
wow. sounds like JesSiCa is really close to helping you solve your problem.