Jul 25 2008
Upgrading My Parcom Account
My site (truthsaves.org) was down a couple days ago . . . I was migrating my site from one server to another. My host, Parcom, was quite patient with me as I struggled through the process (Parcom is the best web host out there; I’ll explain why in another post). Thank goodness they were, because I was truly the customer from hell; I’m very obsessive about getting things done in a timely fashion.
Anyway, everything is back up and running. I successfully upgraded my database from MySQL 4.0 to MySQL 5.0, and really, it wasn’t that hard. I simply referenced the following article and I used the phpMyAdmin solution.
Backing Up Your Database - WordPress.org
Everything went very smoothly with the database backup and subsequent import, for which I am eternally grateful. Not that anyone reads my blog, but still . . . the articles mean something to me, and there is some good information.
The rest of the site update was a breeze, although I was impatient and didn’t wait long enough to start my move, and I paid for that with a few hours of downtime. It was something about TTL and DNS servers - all stuff that’s a bit over my head, frankly.
So, I’m now on a newer, more powerful server that’s much speedier and more secure. Hopefully we won’t be seeing any downtime in the near future.
Stumble it!