This website is hosted by an American company called Hostgator. It is based in Houston and Austin, Texas.
On occasions the site loads far too slowly for me and I am sure that some visitors have the same feelings. I apologize sincerely because I don’t like to deliver a less than good experience. Something, I don’t know what, changed at Hostgator that made things worse.
As a result, I decided to upgrade the way the site was hosted. This is quite a complicated business. The site will he held on an individual computer (server) at Hostgator rather than sharing a computer. This means transferring all the settings, content and comments.
The new computer is set up and ready to receive the content and comments which will be transferred over the next 72 hours or so. I don’t know when, exactly.
This means that the very last comments made after transfer may not show once the transfer is completed. They might be lost. Visitors should be aware of that. However, I will personally add content because I won’t mind if a few of my comments and an article or two of mine are lost. I can always add them back
After transfer I am hopeful that:
- the site will load faster
- there will be no variations in page load times dependent on busy and quiet times. At the moment things slow down when there is more traffic. This variability should stop after the transfer.
I will keep people posted. This slightly difficult time will be over fairly soon and we can then get back to normal.
Thanks a lot for your patience. If you have any questions please ask in a comment.
Happy New Year Barbara and to Jozef and Walter.
Happy New Year to everybody and their cats 🙂
Happy New Year, Barbara, Ruth, Walt and Jo! 🙂
Michael, Guten Morgen. Wie ist unser Freund, Marc?
Sorry, I’m tired, and now going to bed. How is Marc doing over there in Slovenia? sis I miss an update?
Michael, you know that you will not lose our best newcomers to the site when you have warned them so well…
Hi Caroline. You are one of the family. Marc is still abroad and will back in about 3 days. We miss him. His cats miss him….We are the same 😉
Hey I’m here – Happy New Year Caroline 🙂
I take the train home tomorrow night and arrive homer around 10am on the 2nd at my house. I’ll be so very excited to open the door and see my little ones again finally 🙂
Hey…I can feel the pleasure they are going to get from your return. Whenever I have gone away properly I always thought about my cat. It preyed on my mind a bit.
Hello, Marc! We’re very excited for you! and to your safe return. Happy New Year!:)
There must be a lot more to running the site than most of us ever imagine, it sounds so complicated to me so good luck with the change over and thank you for all you do to make POC the wonderful place to visit that it is.
There’s something called html code that was invented to make the average among us feel stupid. Michael knows html and that makes him brillant!
Hype Text Markup Language is actually alot more simple than something like Java which is a multi platform scripting language.
I love this one though – guess what JPEG stands for…..
Joint Photographic Experts Group
Yep, thats what it stands for 🙂
All I know is anytime I see this “‘ I run. Same goes with algebra 🙂
Thanks Babara. Things can be quite calm but this sort of thing, as I said, makes me anxious and it is complicated ((high risk). Anyway, I’ll just keep going forwards 😉
I don’t see how you do what you do. I’m lost on technical issues and have tried to learn some but I guess I’m just an old fart where servers and html are involved.
Well Elisa, it is a nightmare and I am fed up 😉 That gives you an idea of what I have to go through. PoC now is much more complicated than what it was (an html site). It is based on a different system – database and php. It is a high risk game and it worries me.
I’m having issues today too. My data stick and my computer are claiming they don’t know each other. So I can’t get online.
Life can be hell sometimes. Really. Mind you if I lived in the Sudan, I’d jump of the nearest cliff.
Do you need some quick help? email me [I have an email 🙂 )cmgifford@gmmail what os are you using? it really doesn’t matter. [were you being literal?] I can help. it’s what I do. software. updates. regardless of OS. just give me the issue. 🙂
Ohmygoodness, Elisa, you truly are a “Little Shit!” [sorry, the name of my last three rescues’ Momma! she was spayed b4 she passed.]
I’m “unique” 🙂
Love you. 🙂
I don’t know what the extent of his patience is either. I would like to make a phone call on his behalf. Michael, hang in there… our cats always do, even when we torment them. Hang in there, Bro.
[If it helps any, imagine what it feels like to be human female and not have any hot water, due to your housemate male human. grrrrrrrrrrrr…. Thank heaven, that I have my Cats. We love you, Michael.
you don’t know this: I have not had anything but freezing water to bathe, in a month. Shrimp, thank you, likes to wash the back of my hand. It’s the only thing that keeps me sane right now. Michael,
Michael, smile!
🙂 Thanks C.
Thanks Caroline. I am hanging in there. Moving the site makes me anxious.
Good luck with all this Michael, you do work hard to keep all the PoC visitors happy!
Thanks Ruth. It is a very difficult time. I just have to be patient and keep going forwards… 😉
Michael – when we moved to dedicated it was a matter of about 8 hours with almost no interruption. Hopefully it will be as easy for you.
I have a feeling your host company is better than Hostgator also PoC is a large site with over 6,000 pages and 12,000 images and 23,000 comments. There is lots to move. That said it should not be that hugely time consuming. I am waiting for email notification.