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My web site is now (mostly, anyway) migrated to my new server package, which as previously mentioned is a NetworkRedux Silver Virtual Private Server, paid for yearly (yeesh). Additionally, all of my domain names are now with GoDaddy, and I'm hosting my own BIND and nameservers—meaning, no dealing with NetworkRedux or having to go through a slow and buggy server control panel which shall go unnamed to create subdomains or make other DNS configurations. I am now in complete control of my web server and all online access to it, and am managing it all by hand (primarily via SSH through the command line).

It did take a little longer than I had anticipated to get things put back together to their current state. I went through a couple of minor configuration crises that I did manage to resolve eventually, and just when I thouht I had everything put together—Drupal up and running and everything—I managed to bork it all again. But my perserverance and late nights have paid off, and tada: the site is back online. Two posts still have yet to be migrated over: one because I'm considering how to attack formatting the large blocks of code it contains, and another because I'll be rewriting it to include lots of images, which is dependent on the subject in the next paragraph. Any old links (except those to the two aforementioned posts) should still work fine thanks to a little mod_rewrite magic, and the RSS feed is still in the same place as before, so no need to update any old links; it's all taken care of.

A few major changes: instead of Gallery2, I'm using Drupal's Image.module for image gallery management, coupled with FCKeditor for content rich-text editing and Image Assist for putting pictures into content. Why? Because this setup plays together more nicely. The major downside is not having an iPhoto export plugin, like I did with Gallery, and unfortunately an effort to bring Gallery's Remote API to Drupal seems to be defunct. So my options now are to either take up the slack myself in porting a remote access API between two web apps I have minimal hacking experience with, or write my own exporter for my exact setup from scratch. Hopefully it won't be too long before I can get all of my photos back online in their original glory, with the added awesomeness of more cool stuff. Also, I've scrapped writing my own theme for now and am sticking with the Drupal default, with some custom color modifications which I'll write more about later.

And yeah…about sleep patterns. Notice the time that I'm posting this, take note of the fact that not one day of the week do I have to leave my grandparents' house by 12:30 (class at 1:10 Monday through Friday—that's a whole other rant—and church at 1 on Sunday) and you'll probably get a feel for what my day-to-day schedule has been like. Is productivity at the cost of sanity still true productivity? That's a question for me to answer after I've had sleep. In the meantime, vote in the poll to the left, and just browse around and admire the shininess.