Grand Re-Opening
The Garage tech blog is officially back up. Technically it was never down; let’s say it was dormant for a while.
Everything is updated to the latest and greatest. Wordpress 2.7 along with my standard plugins — Akismet, Twitter tools, SEO, ShareThis, and backup — are all installed and updated. All I need now is a new theme. I’ve got plenty to write about if the urge strikes. I guess I feel an urge coming on or I wouldn’t have done all the work to revive the blog.
The next thing up for this morning is to finish decommissioning the Dell PowerEdge 6300, which is a Lotus Domino server that has been hosting a few blogs and mail for the doncallaway.org domain, which has also been dormant for a while. If you’ve followed me around over the years you have heard me bitch and complain about the Dell 6300 before. Yesterday I changed the DNS entries for doncallaway.org to point to my 1an1 hosted account; it now points to this blog.
Finally, nothing on the outside points to TheGarage anymore. All I have to do now is back up all the databases and I can shut the behemoth 6300 down for good and dolly that bitch out to the curb.
Shutting the server down is kinda like the final chapter of a big part of my life for the past fourteen years. There has never been a time that I didn’t have a Notes/Domino server in my lab. Domino consulting used to be all I did. The end of an era. A lot of work over the past couple of years has gone in to moving all my stuff to a hosted environment and today is finally the day I wash my hands completely of internet hosting.  The fact that it took so long to get everything moved is the reason I had to finally bite the bullet and move everything.
I’ll have to replace the server but I don’t think I’ll ever be running Domino again. I’ll get a cheap yet very powerful PC and run a LAMP installation so I can develop in one of the hottest markets going: Wordpress, php, and theme customization.
