I nearly lost the rights to The Music Tank’s domain name. I tried to transfer the dot com from Domain Registry of Canada to Go Daddy but I got caught with very bad timing and my subscription had ended before the transfer was completed.
Fortunately, DROC’s customer server service allowed me to renew the dot com [...]
Thinking all would be easy, I decided to move The Music Tank’s forum data into its own database. Doing so, I noticed there was a new release candidate for phpBB3 and installed it at the same time.
While most of it is my fault because I overrode the templates and migrated the database manually, the update [...]
In most cases, websites don’t necessarily need to be managed by sessions that end as soon as the users closes their browser. Most websites now offer to keep their session alive for whatever amount of time. This is really less of a hassle for your users and adds to the positive user experience.
Learning what not [...]
As I took the time to explain in a post in The Music Tank’s new forum, I’ve been using the second version of phpBB for what seemed like forever on the website. Until the recent redesign, I grew increasingly unsatisfied with the board on two subjects: the spam filtering and the general administration interface.
There weren’t [...]
The main PHP Class file of The Music Tank stopped loading altogether yesterday. After scanning lines after lines of code trying to guess what what generating an error I still hadn’t found the problem until late last night.
What made it nebulous was that instead of having a message from PHP describing a known error [...]
I think the worst part of the whole host transfer deal was the relatively old age of my last MySQL backup. I always keep updated versions of my PHP files close by, may it only be because I am always working on something new, so at least all the programming logic has migrated successfully.
However, all [...]
I have just switched my hosting plan from Abnormis’s to MediaTemple’s. Four days of downtime (therefore breaking the 99-plus % guaranteed uptime period) was too long for my hard-earned dollars.
I intend to describe how great Media Temple’s service is, how it’s the best shared-hosting package I have experienced yet, and how happy I am with [...]