Virtual Moving Day

I decided to consolidate the hosting for the old business under one of my accounts, saving around $90 that would have gone toward that perpetually underused space.  Tomorrow is the drop dead date, and over the past couple days I have been working toward everything needed for that.

Obviously, I don’t want to lose anything, so I’m trying to make sure all files are copied down and then copied up, less ones that won’t be needed, to the new space as an add-on to elhide.com.  That’s the simple part.  E-mail accounts don’t transfer.  MySQL is an issue if I bother to recreate the blog that was retired there.  The mailing list wouldn’t transfer.

In the past week, I had primed people on the list I run for the possibility of a change of domain, which isn’t much bumpier than rebuilding the list under new hosting.  While I migrated all the addresses, I took a show of hands to see who was really there, and will check specifically with people who didn’t respond, as well as re-inviting people who’d once been on the list and left or bounced off or whatnot.

I ended up getting a new domain, specifically for the purpose of the list and potentially other alumni activity among former employees of our former employer.

I had to clean out e-mail accumulated in accounts on the server.  Mine was set to leave on server.  The partner who checks his sometimes did a full download at my request.  The partner who never checks his, and had over 3 MB of e-mail accumulated since the end of 2003, I just cleaned it out myself.  It’s all junk or obsolete.

I think I’m actually ready.  There are backups galore.  I can access the old content via IP for the next day if needed.

Of course, then I’ll need to adjust the old web site to reflect that we won’t be at the same location, or necessarily in business at all.

During all this, I found treasure.  Back in 2003, I started creating resume pages as part of a concept for farming out people for work through the business.  I don’t recall why I dropped it; distraction, deciding it would never work, disgust with lack of interest, unrequited need to make the whole thing more automated.  The pages I created toward the concept are gorgeous, and in retrospect it seems brilliant.  Having seen the same basic thing done more recently, more crudely, it disturbs me that I dropped it.  Even now, it’s not that far off from an idea I have pending, having forgotten the original.

Of course, I also started a jobs blog in early 2003, part of the same range of ideas.  Never went anywhere with it, and with chagrin saw someone else start a jobs blog later.

Anyway, here goes with the actual change of hosting…

Posted by on 09/23 at 03:12 PM

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