One of the struggles we have within our company is drawing the line between our hosting services and our web site development services. This most often comes up when we come across sites we built 5-6 years ago and suddenly the technology behind them no longer works. For example, we built sites using our own custom systems. Granted they were based in open source technology like PHP and MySQL and they worked back then....
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How to Migrate Your Site to a Different Host
Nearly every week we get requests from organizations that want to move their web site to our service. For most people this is a mysterious process and we end up answering the same questions over and over. This post is an attempt to explain the process of site migration, not to our hosting necessarily, but from any system to any other. Why move? There are many reasons why you might wish to move your...
Hosting Woes
The other day we had a couple servers made inaccessible for over 9 hours. It was a disaster. The servers themselves were fine, but the data center where they live had a power outage. From what little information I have gathered, the power outage caused networking and router failures, so that even when power was restored either through back up or primary source repair, the server bank where we had a couple servers remained...
Local Sites Down
Gosh Dell’ Arte had a nice looking web site. Unfortunately, just as their annual Mad River Festival kicks off, the site keeps going down. Maybe by the time you click the link it will be back up. I hope so. And now the Eureka Reporter site is down. Is it the strange a wonderful weather we’re having? Nah. I think they’re both running on Windows boxes. Not the same one. But could it be...
