Wow! Sometimes technical stuff gets tricky and for the past two weeks, technical stuff has been the bane of my existance. I finally got fed up with DreamHost, so now the site is being at Hostgator. I’m sorry for the lack of posts for the past few days, but I’ve been switching all of the stuff from the old hosting to the new. It’s not as easy as it seems. I’m just clearing some things up with upgrading to Wordpress 2.5 and getting rid of some of the remaining issues, then I’ll start posting again. If all goes well, I should be posting new material very soon.

The site’s been slow, sometimes it’s been down all together.  For a while, things were so messed up that all the site displayed was a page of code!  I wish I could tell you that this would improve in the near future, but DreamHost has been extremely vague about when this might be fixed.  Below is an excerpt from their latest e-mail. Thanks for hanging in there while this gets fixed. I have switched over my e-mail to another service, so that should be working reliably.

Sorry about the downtime…Blingy is your cluster of machines for web, mysql, and email. The main file server for this cluster is having serious problems.

We have been working on this file server for a while and unfortunately our efforts have not produced a permanent solution. We currently are moving users and data from the file server onto a new one. This unfortunately takes time to complete but we are working towards giving the file server more breathing room. We are also in the process of adding a third file server to the cluster and we will be moving even more data there as well.

The moves are running and things are going okay for the most part. We are still dealing with occasional problems with the file server that we are addressing immediately so as the moves run you will still notice problems in service.