Gallery on-line
Progress on the gallery itself has slowed, what with the holidays and everything, but there have been related events.
For one thing, the hosting company that I’ve been using happily for five years has become really unreliable. “UplinkEarth“, as they call themselves, has a lot of features and used to be really fast support, but they’ve had a lot of problems recently, mostly involving hacker attacks (it’s SO much fun to check your sites and discover that all the content is gone). That specific problem isn’t their fault (although apparentlly they were sending passwords as clear text) but the way they handle things is bizarre. Like changing your user name without telling you, or blocking all FTP access from Europe because some of the hackers are in Europe.
At any rate, I got mad enough to try another provider. I’m trying ReliableSite.net now. (I know, another great name.) The administration tools are better, and it’s cheaper for what you get. It’s a little more bare-bones, but that suits me. I have, unfortunately already had trouble with support. Many of the items in their “knowledge base” are either out-of-date or not-yet-in-date.
But yesterday I decided to upload my gallery and see what happens. And, after a few changes to the config file, it worked! Check it out: gallery.rezio.net. I also set up a WordPress installation to make sure the PHP support worked, and that worked perfectly.
I’m very happy about the site speed too — it seems really fast. I looked up the IP, and it’s out of the UK. That’s five times zones closer to Denmark (UplinkEarth servers are on the US East coast) so perhaps that’s all it is, but some reviewers have noted that ReliableSite.net is fast.
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