Upcoming Site Maintenance – July/August 2015

This site will be undergoing a bit of maintenance within the next week.

As any of you have visited this site over the years might have figured out, this site tends to be the test site for anything I have to figure out or do for some other site. I thought I might be past that and yet here we are again.

It will be moving to a new hosting platform. That requires that I move the site from one IP address to another. It also requires that I move the application and the database. All a little tricky. And so the ‘previoulsy experimental’ site once again becomes ‘an experimental’ site. Not to worry though, I have made progress since the earlier days of the site and now have a way of testing most things before messing it up for you.

Since I have already tested the process, and found some of the pitfalls, think I can make this move happen with as little downtime as possible.

I am hoping to get this done within the week. Certainly by sometime on August 2. I have another site I need to migrate after that and I only have to sometime in August to do it so I need to get started.

Sometime after I’ve moved both sites there will be some additional maintenance changes take place as I will be updating the look of the site some as well. So some fun stuff to look for.