Websites are HARD work and Time Consuming

Feb 24 2008

Websites are HARD work and Time Consuming

Published by UltraYeah at 12:09 am under Computer Lingo

I woke up at 12pm and worked on my website until 12am.

So what exactly did I do? First, I had to resolve the Dynamic Name System for my domain: NS1.dailyyeah.com, NS2.dailyyeah.com. This basically is like a internet phone book for domains. This took about a year, literally. It took so long because if you change the nameserver, if you already have a domain, it takes the internet ages to recognize it. It has to tell every server that your domain address changed. Some servers might even have your old address. Overall this step take 24-48 hours. Talk about PAIN.

Secondly, I had to migrate my old Wordpress: I had to take all the MySQL database and all the files. All the posts and instructions on how to use the physical files(like themes), are in the mysql file; everything else is in the physical files, that you can grab via FTP(file transfer protocol). This step took another year. Why? Cause my upload speed is ridiculously slow and I messed up several times, so I had to upload it more than once.

Finally, I had to get the whole thing to work. I hated this part, because the permalinks weren’t working. Permalinks are urls that point to blogs after you write them. I couldn’t figure out why click on my posts gave me a page missing error-404. It turned out that I needed to edit the .htacess file to allow it to change the domains. I believe .htacess works with the Apache server with the mod_rewrite module, to rewrite urls. Before editing the .htacess I was getting a “PAGE DOES NOT EXIST 404″, but it was resolved after I edited the permalink.

Basically, I spent my whole day configuring this website to my new Virtual Private Server. A virtual server basically host several domains, like shared hosting, but with a dedicated amount of ram and computer speed per domain: I have 300mb+ ram dedicated to DailyYeah.com. Before today I was on Dreamhost’s Shared hosting, which was painfully slow. Ironically, Dreamhost isn’t really a dream host. Now I’m hosting with Liquidweb and hopefully everything will be rocket speed fast! Their tech support is amazing: You just call their number and almost instantly you get to talk to a real person. At Dreamhost, it would take at least 1 full day for a person to respond via email, usually with an excuse of what happened.