December 3rd 2014 - Day 49
Last night I tried to be a hero and migrate 3 sites over to Digital Ocean myself despite having 0 linux experience. I gave up at 4am while NGINX was failing to restart after I tried to configure a virtual host so I could add more domains. Unmanaged hosting isn't the answer for me right now.
This spontaneous decision was made after Dreamhost - who I got a black Friday deal on, was taking hours to answer support inquiries. They also told me I needed to use SSH to migrate my .sql backup. My thought process went like this: If I need to learn how to use SSH, I might as well dive into everything. I think I did pretty well, but there's no way staying on an unmanaged server won't distract me from more important things, like it did over the last 24 hours...
Anyway, I wrote up my first outreach attempt for operation user content. He was last active on the site 2 days ago, so I might have to wait a little bit for a response. I need to figure out my hosting situation tonight. I'm tempted to get off shared hosting, but I'm not sure if it's a wise financial decision right now.
It's been two really late nights in a row. Hoping I have some time tonight to regroup and get back into planning my most important tasks. I'm working longer the last 48 hours, but less actual work is being done.
86 days left
Last night I tried to be a hero and migrate 3 sites over to Digital Ocean myself despite having 0 linux experience. I gave up at 4am while NGINX was failing to restart after I tried to configure a virtual host so I could add more domains. Unmanaged hosting isn't the answer for me right now.
This spontaneous decision was made after Dreamhost - who I got a black Friday deal on, was taking hours to answer support inquiries. They also told me I needed to use SSH to migrate my .sql backup. My thought process went like this: If I need to learn how to use SSH, I might as well dive into everything. I think I did pretty well, but there's no way staying on an unmanaged server won't distract me from more important things, like it did over the last 24 hours...
Anyway, I wrote up my first outreach attempt for operation user content. He was last active on the site 2 days ago, so I might have to wait a little bit for a response. I need to figure out my hosting situation tonight. I'm tempted to get off shared hosting, but I'm not sure if it's a wise financial decision right now.
It's been two really late nights in a row. Hoping I have some time tonight to regroup and get back into planning my most important tasks. I'm working longer the last 48 hours, but less actual work is being done.
86 days left