BurningbirdI’m still delighted with my new Linode VPS. I added one button backup to my plan, and that’s made all the difference in the world. Now, when I’m about to try something tricky, such as setting up a site firewall, I can make a snapshot backup first. Then, if my site gets toasted, I can […]
As you can see if you’re reading this, the move to a new hosting company went very well. I’m already exceptionally pleased with Linode, not the least of which the dashboard the company provides makes maintaining the site so much easier. The only real challenges I faced were setting up the email system, and porting […]
As I detail in RealTech, not only am I upgrading to Drupal 7, I’m also moving to a new host. I figured it was time to move to a server where I have more control over the environment. I’m also doing other work, which may leave my site in a tangled mess at times. If you […]
Drupal 7 is right around the corner, and my efforts to see how it would work on my existing server made me decide it is time to move to another hosting company. I need more control over my own space, and what is, or is not, installed. After discussions with the inestimable Laura Scott (@lauras), my go-to […]
I made my first attempt to use the new Drupal 7 beta to upgrade my existing module experiment site. Unfortunately, I quickly ran into a fatal error: DatabaseSchemaObjectExistsException: Table cache_path already exists. in DatabaseSchema->createTable() (line 621 of /home/myname/public_html/books/includes/database/schema.inc). I submitted a bug for the error at the time it happened. Checking back later, though, I couldn’t […]