Easter holiday updates
Mar 31st, 2008 by Kevin Holler
The Easter holidays have come to an end and so has my social life. Things have been quite busy around here the past two weeks and its only getting worse from here on. But before i fill you all in on whats been going on, i thought I’d mention that my School is closed today, and probably so for the next few days.
Why? Well the school has been flooded. Yes, flooded. It was hard to grasp at first because to me that kind of stuff only happened in the films such as Donnie Darko. I had to sit and laugh for a while. Not something that happens every day is it?.
In the past week or so I have been busy searching for a new Hosting provider for our business Tamooka. Dreamhost didn’t seem very appealing anymore due to their overselling and downtime. So we decided to go with a smaller hosting provider who had better uptime and didn’t oversell their services. Recommended by a friend we decided to go with asmallorange.com. They seemed to have a nice helpful community and excellent uptime standards. So i purchased a package with them. However, i purchased the package thinking it was 10GB space as apposed to the correct 1GB space. (Yes, i need glasses). As soon as i realized this i basically freaked and called Colin, my business partner, who of course started laughing. After all this was going to affect our capability to resell some decent packages.
So our only options were to cancel the package, and resort to another provider or keep the package and cut our packages down to a mere 100mb, which by all means didn’t seem very appealing to me or Colin. So we decided to go with plan A. So far we have not yet switched to a new provider as we are awaiting the ASO package to be canceled. However, a new hosting company that has just recently launched has got very attractive offers and excellent value for money. So we are hoping to switch to that company, MintHost. So lets see how that goes. After all, we have four days left.
On another note, i have been working on a portfolio for my new website which i hope to release this summer. The front end design is complete and i hope to showcase all my web design, graphic design, photography and code their. The blog will only be a section of the site unlike now. And the front page will contain various content feeds. It is currently on hold and i will begin coding the backend after my exams are done in July. Whether or not i will build the whole site around wordpress is not yet clear. But I’m thinking of coding the backend in Ruby on Rails which could be fun.
All work and fun aside, i have My Irish and German oral exams beginning next week. And my Music practical exams beginning the week after! So I’m going to have to ween myself away from the computer and force myself to study and prepare for these exams. Which is quite impossible. I’ll keep you informed on how they go!
Happy sleeping,
Kevin.
Just saw your post on wordpress 2.5, so I decided to upgrade. Thanks be to jesus I use zero plug ins, I just had to copy my config, uploads and theme over.
I’m sure you won’t be disappointed with Minthost
Well i had no problems with the plugins at all. I use about 10 plugins and they all still worked fine after the upgrade. And also you can auto upgrade them now which is great.