ITauthor

The site has been up and down, there and not there, recently. This is for a number of reasons but mainly because Sky cut off my internet connection which meant that - because my site was hosted from an old PC running Linux, sitting in a basement cubby hole in my house - my Web site disappeared.

At around the same time some of my domain names came up for renewal and when I was renewing itauthor.eu with Euro-Reg.com I decided, on the spur of the moment, to buy a hosting package and move everything onto their servers. You may have noticed that, at the time of writing at any rate, the URL for the site is .eu rather than the usual .com.

Things may change because I subsequently realised that Euro-Reg only allows me 500MB of space, which isn't enough to put everything up that was originally on my site (so you may notice some missing pics etc.). I think I might move everything over to Dreamhost, but for the time being it's working OK where it is and it means I can save a bit of electricity by turning off my Web server.

If you've visited before you may notice that the site runs a little faster than before - not a huge amount though, which is a little disappointing given that I got a tiny upload speed from Sky.

The downside of moving things to Euro-Reg is that I have no command line access and I have to move files via FTP. I'd forgotten how slow and arduous FTP is. I'd got so used to using WinSCP for putting stuff on my Web server. I'd kind of consigned FTP to history and thought I'd never use it again. Funny how things turn around.

However, the big gain from moving my WordPress blog onto someone else's server is that - for reasons unknown - the "Next/Previous" links in WordPress that had never appeared before now work just fine. I'd spent ages in WordPress forums trying to get these links to show up, without success, so it's nice that the site is now much more accessible and you can get more than 5 search results now.