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Monday, 12 February 2007. WilcosWorld.
Update:
I am now hosted by (mt) Media Temple.
Some of you might have experienced some odd posts in the RSS feed, and flakey availability of the site yesterday. The reason for this was that I was moving the content of WilcosWorld.co.uk 2,230 miles from Alabama to Los Angeles, a trip that Google Maps approximates as taking about 1 day and 7 hours as the crow flies. The wonders of the internet managed it in a little over 12 hours.
I moved the site from OpenSourceHost, to Electric Kitten. Now I don't want you to think there was anything wrong with OpenSourceHost, their service was top notch, I experienced no down time, (as far as I am aware), in the seven months I was with them, and I always found their support staff to be extremely knowledge and happy to help.
I moved mostly because I wanted more space, and I could get more with Electric Kitten for less money, than with OpenSourceHost. Deep down I am a sucker for a good deal.
I have recently been using some of my webspace as storage for my automated backups I run on my iMac and the girlfriends' MacBook, and I needed more space. I need to access my emails from work, but I had the options of two equally hateful webmail systems; SquirrelMail or Horde, neither of them I like, neither of them look like they are going to treat my email with respect, and I was getting fed up with the sight both of them- so when I found out I could use http://www.roundcube.net/ on Electric Kitten I was very pleased.
RoundCube has a lovely, (clearly Apple inspired), UI with plenty of powerful features including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking. I would go so far as to say that it looks nicer than Gmail, but it doesn't work so well, still plenty of work to go before it can rival the usefulness of Gmail's filtering and labelling functionality.
The whole process of moving was relatively painless, the worst part was transferring the MySQL database from one server to the other... exporting the database on the old server and importing it on the new server was a no go, and I owe plenty of thanks to the power of the new "lossless XML import and export feature" of WordPress 2.1.
Anyway, normal service is now resumed and stay tuned for more from WilcosWorld.co.uk, the life and times of Adam Wilcox.
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