Blog.OnlinePrimary.us

“Yak shaving” is tech-speak for unrelated, often annoying tasks that must be completed enroute to a primary goal, and that’s what most of my Day 1 turned out to be.

For quite a while I’ve had a web server at a commercial data center, which I’ve used for various personal projects and to host websites for friends.  I didn’t want to use it for OnlinePrimary though, because my hopes are that the site will get more activity than my solitary server could handle.  So I decided to sign up for GridService from MediaTemple in hopes it will provide some scalability insurance.  (As additional motivation, both my server and its backup were starting to show signs of age, and my lease at the data center was up for renewal.)  A lot of the day went to migrating all of the sites, email accounts, etc. from my old server to the new, and getting all the internet addresses changed over to the new server, and testing that everything still worked.

Then there was setup to do on the server for the onlineprimary.us domain and this blog.  (Though MediaTemple does make it mighty easy to get Wordpress set up.)  And doing my first blog post, of course.

Bottom line: Migrations successful, and infrastructure taken care of.  But no hands-on work on the thing that’s the reason for this party.

Oh yeah, and what am I supposed to do with all this yak hair?

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