Tag Archives: self-hosting

Back In The Saddle

After a couple of weeks, this place is finally starting to shape up. WordPress had been installed for a while but I didn’t really want to go live until I had a domain picked out. Once I got that domain set up, well… it was really confusing for a while.

Now… I have operated a self-hosted blog before but it’s been about ten years since I’d done so. Between completely forgetting about a ton of things and the technology advancing quite a bit with new services and options… the re-learning curve was pretty steep. I haven’t actually learned much because I relied upon Customer Service helping me out and… patience. Often, things just need to run their course and I forget that from time to time.

Anyway, I’m looking forward to writing here again more. I’ve been doing a lot of introspection lately… seeing a therapist and am hoping to figure some stuff out with my life. What I want and where I want to be. Hopefully, I can use this blog to get myself back and live the life that I want to live.

One Blog To Rule Them All

I’m in the process of migrating all of my previous blog work into this consolidated site, going all the way back to probably around 2005 or earlier. The easy part was trying to migrate over the variety of blogs that I have started on WordPress.com (minus a few errors that prevented me from migrating over photos that would go into individual posts) and they are located here now.

I’m having a problem now with the blogs and posts that were self-hosted in a much earlier era. I downloaded the .sql files for those various blogs before I cancelled the hosting, assuming that it would be easy to reinstate these .sql files. And, theoretically, you should be able to do so with phpMyAdmin however I’m out of practice with using this for maybe 15 years. AND it’s changed so much. So I have some homework to do.

Bottom line, this site is under construction and might take some time to get up and running as well as looking the way that I want it to look.