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By: SteveStreeting.com » Blog Archive » Wordpress upgrade script

SteveStreeting.com » Blog Archive » Wordpress upgrade script — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:19:46 +0000

[...] web software up to date is a pain, but failure to do it can result in significant ramifications. Some bits of software are easier to keep up to date than others, but one thing I never like doing [...]

By: Noid the Proid Loid

Noid the Proid Loid — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:19:21 +0000

Black-hat spammers are parasites. Ogre is one of the good guys making decent software. Anyone targetting a project like Ogre must be a total jerk with no life. I wish you the best of luck getting the new site back up, and look forward to another year of great Ogre advances.

By: SteveStreeting.com » Blog Archive » Part high-chair, part bronco simulator

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:35:08 +0000

[...] and I have a hundred and one things to catch up on this week after last week’s unplanned diversions, so bear with me if I’ve missed things in the forum or am otherwise slow to respond. There [...]

By: btmorex

btmorex — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:08:00 +0000

That sucks. It seems this sort of thing happens all the time now, I guess because almost everyone is using CMS software (joomla, wordpress, drupal). I used to use drupal, but I found that wordpress had much less painful upgrades. Especially with 2.7, it’s basically all automated, which makes it much easier to keep on top of things.

By: jacmoe

jacmoe — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:45:43 +0000

I recommend CMS Made Simple, even though I use ModX.
It’s lean and quite capable.
This really sucks.

By: Luis

Luis — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:08:17 +0000

sorry to hear that! I hope software reinstall will not take too much time

By: Game_Ender

Game_Ender — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:59:11 +0000

That sucks Steve. I do a little adminning on the side, although you appear to better at it then I, and I know how hard it can be to get everything setup just perfectly.

Good luck getting the new site up.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:38:34 +0000

@Assaf: thanks, nice pics.
@Dark: yes, I know the TKS site is down too, it’s on the same server, hence why I’m keen to get them both back up. That will be faster to restore because it’s simpler, if only I could get into the reinstalled server right now (grr). I could have switched the DNS over to another server temporarily, but the time lag of doing that (and returning it) and given how close I thought I was to getting a placeholder going, I haven’t done it. If I could just get someone to walk into the datacentre and fix the sshd problem, I could probably be back up at a basic level in about 30 minutes. My only guess is that they’re understaffed because of all the travel disruption in the UK right now.
@Roz: I appreciate the thought, but after 15 years doing this I’ve learned the one constant is that things never go to plan. In life Im an optimist, but I’m also a realist when it comes to technical things Sods law says that what can go wrong, will go wrong – like having these sorts of problems on the very day that the datacentre is understaffed.

By: Roz

Roz — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:21:42 +0000

Steve, I don’t understand your post in the least and don’t need too. But if you expect to be stressed you will be. Expect to be positive and productive and for things to go to plan Lecture over.

By: haffax

haffax — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:59:04 +0000

Good idea with wordpress replacing joomla. Managing wordpress is easy, and the news section is like a blog anyway. These few static pages are just as easy to set up and there are lots of gallery plugins for wordpress available.