stuff is cool

Last month I found a pretty incredible deal on web hosting over at Dreamhost. For $20 up front, I got everything you see in the “Crazy Domain Insane!” package seen here for an entire year. And considering that I drop $60 a week on poker sometimes (of course, I make some of that back…), I figured I could justify this.

Anyway, since it has so much more disk space and bandwidth (compare: 1.5GB disk/23.4GB bandwidth to 200GB disk/2 TB bandwidth … and each of those grows per-week), I’m going to try moving everything from stuffiscool.com over to my Dreamhost account this weekend. Currently, the 1.5GB disk space available would barely be enough to hold half the photos Meg and I have taken with our her digital camera in the past year. Meanwhile, not only can I put every photo we have up on the Dreamhost space, I can put a lot of my personal projects up there as well under a different domain name as well. Once I get those up and running I’ll be posting about those as well, since apparently the consensus opinion of the readership (well, the vocal readership anyway) is that I should just go ahead and post anything that I feel is worth saying.

So, if you can’t read this, then I’m probably moving things. Just a heads up. But it won’t be happening until this weekend (11/4, 11/5), so live it up for now.

UPDATE: So far so good, I’ve got most of the stuff moved over for the blog and I’ve got the DNS updated. Now I just have to re-theme it and reinstall the WP plugins I had installed before, as well as redo gallery.stuffiscool.com

UPDATE 2: Got Gallery up and running but due to some version mismatches that I couldn’t really fix, I’m going to have to recreate the albums and re-upload all the pictures that I had already done as a sort of pre-staging thing yesterday. I’ll try and get the theme and plugins done tonight when I get home.

UPDATE 3: Bah, all of the images uploaded into the older posts are going to be broken unfortunately (see my Web2.0 Greek Festival post for example), and rather than muck about with more DNS changes and wait for them to take effect so that I can get the files back and move them over, I’m just going to chalk that one up as a loss. Oh well. Getting it about 95% right isn’t too bad