Update: Host switch completed, with minimal exploding.
Update to the update, Monday, 10 pm: It seems to be working, and working well! There may be a few lost comments if you commented on anything this afternoon; there was a brief period of time between finally figuring out how to export the old site and figuring out how to import it to the new location, and if anyone commented during that rather frantic period, it didn’t make it over. I apologize!
Thanks for your patience during the move! I look forward to not having to wait three minutes to switch between the edit mode and the preview mode while I’m writing posts.
Update, Mon 4:15 pm: I think we’ve made the switch … DNS will probably take a while to propagate around the intertubes so things might still be slow for a bit. Please let me know if anything weird happens on your end — let me know either in the comments, or via email to yousuckatcraigslist@gmail.com. (Also let me know if it’s working better!) Today’s post is up below this entry if’n you haven’t seen it yet.
Hi folks. If you’re reading this, you’ve probably just sat there for about ten seconds waiting for the page to load (or more! It takes me ~30 seconds sometimes!).
That’s unacceptable, so I’m switching hosts this week. (For what it’s worth, FatCow is my old hosting provider, and as of right now I’m planning to move to WebFaction.com. I’m really not happy with the service from FatCow — from searching around online I’ve found that I’m not the only one experiencing these problems with them recently.)
What that means is that at some point or another, something is bound to go wonky with the site — it will be unavailable or the formatting will explode or something else weird will happen. Murphy’s Law, right?
If we do go down, please be patient — YSaC will be back, and hopefully be faster than before. I’ll try to update the Facebook page and the Twitter feed when things are back to normal.
In the meantime, use your spare time (you know, the time you’ve been using to wait for the pages to load!) to search for Craigslist posts to send in! Oh, and have a sammich.
Heh, was still loading for me after 2 minutes today.
With luck we’ll get that fixed with the transfer. Two minutes is REALLY unacceptable. I did have a couple of periods today where I couldn’t access the site at all, too. Grrr.
A speedy 24 seconds for me. Ah, it reminds me of my dial-up days. BWEEEE bwoooo BING BING BING BING
Ah, the good old days of dialup. Once out of curiosity, I tried to connect to our 1200 baud modem by making the connection sounds vocally…. it actually worked.
lmao
Happy news! This is the only site that I can stand to wait for while it’s loading. That’s the highest compliment I can give. But am looking forward to getting my YSACL fix sooner!
Good move! I thought it was only me or something. There’s def no reason you should have to make your readers wait what is often for me several minutes for your page to load. I will be patient through this perhaps trying transition!
It’s working GREAT now on my machine. Of course, my machine is 6 feet from yours, but the server is in Texas, so that shouldn’t matter, right?
It’s 4:30 and we’ve been working on this all day… can I please go take a shower now?
I’ve been meaning to say something, Mr. YSaC … yes, PLEASE! Go take a shower!
It’s working great! Fast, everything still looks the same, great taste, less filling. Good job!
Thanks, Colleen!
If other blogs link to your site, remember to have them update their links. For whatever reason, the link off of pa notes didn’t work.
Good catch. I’ll put in a redirect and contact kerry at PA notes — she’s linking to an old address anyway.
VROOOOOOM.
That is all.
Awesome! So much faster, this is great ! 🙂
Wooo!! I love it. Run (away) FatCow, Run.
Why didn’t I do this sooner? Oh right, because it took an entire day to get it working properly.