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The server was ready about this time yesterday morning. I spent a good bit of time doing some basic configurations, tweaking, etc. I did a lot more of that last night too. I’ve moved this account as well as a few select others, so far no problems. I decided to take this as a good opportunity to upgrade a lot of the system software, making the big leaps like Apache1 to Apache2 and PHP4 to PHP5.

cPanel® is driving me nuts, undoing all the work I had done. I still don’t have the hang of the distiller and all that, seems like it’s sort of variable on if it works or not. I really must prefer the old way of hand editing files and not having to worry about the changes vanishing. It also, annoyingly, deletes the main htdocs directory upon every Apache compile. I finally just made the files there, specifically global error pages, immutable.

I’m hoping to move a couple more accounts this evening, but with the bulk being transferred over the weekend.

Oh, and I finally joined the world of up-to-date Wordpress users. It turns out the change from 1.2ish to 2.3ish wasn’t nearly as painful as I expected it would be. I dislike the whole template system, another example of my personal desire for old-fashioned things, but I can see how it would be very useful for others. Instead of bucking the system, so to speak, and just using my ordinary index.php file, I broke up my template to fit the system, so far so good there too.

This new server, aside from being a huge financial dent, is so very fast!