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On the run

Not much time for writing lately, but I don't want this blog to die so here's a quick update:

e's still not feeling sick, but she can't do anything without feeling completely exhausted. She sleeps 8 hours every night and then 1-3 hours more during her daily naps. This baby is wearing her out!

I spent most of my time working on websites this weekend, unfortunately none on my own. We've been working on our church's website and found ourselves up against a 10MB limit, very small for their photo-heavy site. I noticed that we have several hundred MBs of unused space on our hosting plan and two empty slots for domain names, so we offered and the pastor agreed to let us host his site. The transfer went pretty painlessly, but it was a lot of tedious work. Passed some increasingly annoying emails back and forth with Webintellects Tech support about FXP to transfer the old site to the new. I don't think their A-team works weekends because the last word from them was that they don't support FXP but are planning a software release in the near future. When I pointed out that they merely needed to add a line to their proftpd config file and that FXP support had zero to do with software they release, they closed the trouble ticket instead of responding.

I got the last laugh when I remembered that this otherwise great hosting company lets me login to the shell with ssh. I logged in and then used ncftp (which has recursive file xfer) to connect to the old website. I had everything transferred over in a matter of minutes without having to download the 10MB to my home PC first.

Now that the church website is with us, we have a lot more content options since we have php, mysql, etc. I'm looking to change his site over to an easy to manage CMS. I really liked Church Website in a Box, which is a highly customized PostNuke board, but it's not easily convertible to Spanish so I had to drop it. I may go with a straight PostNuke install which can be done in Spanish; depends on how much time I have.

How's that for a "quick" update? More later!

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