Finally after 50 tries, check is in the mail, bird in the bedroom, sick sucks

So after pretty easily migrating my Dufisthenics blog and the GCR web site over to GoDaddy shared WP hosting I have been banging my head against the wall trying to get my main blog over there.  I lost count of how many times I tried to move it unsuccessfully.  The migration would start, run for awhile and then fail with no clear explanation of why.  I was surprised when I called into GoDaddy support (US based) that they really couldn’t tell me why it was failing either.  They just gave me general guidelines to follow like disabling pretty much all plug ins, making sure the accounts I provide for the migration have the proper security and a few other generic common sense things.  None of them worked.

So I was doing some more digging around in my blog files.  I found a glutton of files that were created by the caching plug in I was using to appease IX.  There were literally 10s of thousands of files just sitting there doing nothing.  In addition there were several gigs of back up files from another plug in I had to use to back up the blog since IX basically does not back up their customers data in any sort of reliable manner. (GoDaddy does nightly back ups which you have access to for the prior 30 days)

There were so many junk files in there it literally took a couple hours to delete them all with my FTP client.  My theory was the migration, which includes copying all of the files in the WordPress installation via ftp to the GoDaddy servers was simply dying due to the volume and size of the files in my existing set up.  Last night after the clean up finished I initiated another migration, hoping when I woke up the next morning I would have an email saying it was successful.

Imagine my joy when I flipped on the computer this morning and saw it actually worked.   I am again using a hybrid approach to make this happen, where certain parts of my online presence, the stuff that doesn’t generate TOS violations, will remain on the IX servers for now.  The blog, which used to live at http://duf.net/wp  will instead now be accessible at https://blog.duf.net which is kind of easier to remember anyway.  Enjoy your IX Webhosting-free  reading experience.

I was in touch with the Rhinoshield office again yesterday working out them sending me a check to take care of repainting the pool deck.  Sure it would have been nice to have someone else do the work but to be honest I think I will do a better job of it.  I will get some high quality deck paint and go to town whenever I can tack a few vacation days onto a weekend.  It will get several coats of paint for sure.

Last night Cindy applied the final coat of stain to the new kitchen corner cabinet.  The process filled the house with some pretty oppressive fumes.  We moved Tuki into our bedroom to protect him from the fumes.  Birds can be very sensitive to that sort of stuff.  He was a bit disoriented in the bedroom but it seemed like he actually sort of liked being in the same room as us when the lights turned off.  He didn’t make any noise all night which was great.  He will be staying in there until Cindy applies the final glaze coat to the counter top over the weekend.

This weird, very slow moving ailment I have is pretty miserable.  My voice is almost gone and my throat and abs hurt from the hacking dry cough that has come along for the ride.  This morning I was just feeling very low energy and rundown.  If we weren’t already short at work I would have probably bagged it.

If this continues to worsen it could make for a bummer of a weekend.  I am starting to ingest stuff to battle the symptoms.  I did an Airborne with my eggs this morning and grabbed some liquid cough medicine on my way to work.  I’m crossing my fingers the wellness meter starts moving upward again soon.