When originally looking for domain names, theHTPC.com was the first one I looked up, but it was not available, nor was it for sale.  Recently, I received a solicitation email from DesirableDotComs asking me if I was interested in purchasing theHTPC.com domain for about $100.  It’s not a bad deal, really, but I don’t make any money from this site and I didn’t have $100 to spare on a hobby, so I declined.

However, I just received another email from them asking me if I was interested in the domain for $39.97.  That’s pretty hard to turn down, so I bit.  I should have it transferred within the next 24 hours and I’m just going to point it to this site until I decide to do something else with it…if I do at all.

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.

I finally got around to updating my ImagesByName actors package.  It is now correctly comprised of a single People folder that will be compatible with the Firestorm release, scheduled for this Sunday (the 20th).  I will leave the old ImagesByName packages available for download for a while, but they will probably be taken down at some point next month in order to avoid any confusion in what is needed.

As of now, there are 5,956 actor images in this package and it comes in at around 229MB.  Unless you have custom images for many of your actors, it is safe to extract these over your current images.

You can get the new ImagesByName actors only package directly here, or in the Downloads section by clicking on the appropriate link.

That’s right.  As of just a few moments ago, the long-awaited 2.1 beta of Media Browser was released for public download.  There is a lot that comes with this new version, so you’re going to want to read about it here, here (old post) and here (pretty complete writeup including screenshots).  Then, finally download it here.

One of the biggest things I would like to mention here is that there is no upgrade for your watched status indicators.  It will pretty much start over again.

Enjoy!