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Apparently user registration has been partially broken for a while now and I just caught it.  No one reported that their accounts were not getting approved, so I sort of found out on my own through testing something else.

Unfortunately, if you registered over the past week or so and never received a confirmation that your account was now active, you will need to re-register.  I had about 20 unverified accounts that I could not enable manually – probably due to the moving around of the database.

I apologize and hope that you will all register again.

With all the site moving I’ve been doing the past two days, I completely missed the beginning of Alpha testing for the upcoming Thunderblade release of Media Browser (started on the 4th).

I ran into one big problem on first load, but it appeared most everyone else did also.  I should have more to tell on Monday after I get a little live time with it tonight and tomorrow.

I’m back on my original host.   Things with InMotion Hosting just did not work out.  I’m tired as I’ve spent all of the last two days on this, so I’ll give more details later.

Things are up and running pretty well, actually, so I’m happy enough.  Please use the contact form to report any damage that the gremlins may have caused while I was gone.

I’m sure you’ve probably noticed that for most of the day the site has been under maintenance, down, or maybe even serving up various PHP guts…I don’t know.  Downtime is now over.

I decided that I didn’t have to transfer my domain to get on the new host…I just created an add-on domain and redirected the nameservers to my new InMotion Hosting account.  Waiting for my old host to propogate the DNS changes is where the majority of the wait has been…I finished moving the site several hours ago.

I did a little behind-the-scenes cleanup of the ImagesByName and Downloads file folders, so if you encounter any broken downloads, please let me know…I manually edited all of their new locations, so I could have hit commited a typo or two.  In fact, if you see anything around the site misbehaving, please let me know about it via the Contact Form.

Update:

It took quite a bit longer than 8 hours for the DNS to change like my previous host had stated.  Sorry about that.  Aside from that, things appear to be working well.  I’m just now fixing my email accounts so that they make use of the new MX records and am receiving my first round of ‘bug reports’.  Please continue to send those in using the Contact Me page if you find anything strange.  I will fix it right away.

I’ve already had one request for what I did to move this site…anyone else interested?  I think I can remember the most important points.  There honestly wasn’t a whole lot to it.

I just finished the first stage in my quest to transfer this site to a new host with pretty good success.  I’ve decided to go with InMotion Hosting as I already have access to an available domain slot for transfer and they fit my needs well at the price point I’m looking at.

I figure at this point, I’ll just have to copy everything, change a few of the paths in my config files and then pick a date to start the domain transfer.  I expect to be down for at least a day or two during that time, but I believe it will be well worth it. So far, the test site (which partially mirrors this one), is very fast and at only 16% resource usage (compared to 42% here).

I will be sure to make periodic updates as I move forward.