Small Wars Journal

Well, there goes the neighborhood

Thu, 03/06/2008 - 11:55am
Over the next 48 hours you may curse the hiccups as our site transitions to its new speedier host. Funny little numbers in the URL if you look there, SWC logins not holding, hiccups on comments, etc.

But at some point when that separation anxiety is past, we will probably look back fondly at the old days of cheesy shared hosting, reminiscing about how quaint it was for our hosting provider to periodically block our legitimate users from accessing our site, and then take plenty of time to load so they could savor the experience in between false IP blocks.

Only in the waning days of our time there, did we come to realize the company we kept on our old box. We were rubbing digital elbows with a virtual Who's Who. Unfortunately we will no longer be as well connected to various quality Latin American medical service providers. We are all too in need of some miscellaneous enhancements, and those nice bariatrics with a slice of pineapple and a little umbrella, but we're a bit further away from that happy place now. It sure seems a great loss we did not get to know Danielle Ganek better when we shared the same stomping grounds. But there will certainly be no love lost for those nasty xxx couples, who just kept up quite a racket with their nastiness.

So we are moving on from our starter home to our own little white picket fence server in the suburbia of the e-world. Our transition is going on right now. It takes the internet about 48 hours to soak up a change in the DNS, so we'll be propagating for a bit. I guess some of the nastiness rubbed off. :) If you see any quirky things, let us know. We hope all will be good and stable by the week end, and on Monday we are firmly positioned to continue to expand to better serve the Small Wars Community of Interest.

Thanks to a couple of guys who have helped us with the tech all along. I don't want to name names, because then everyone will be bugging you for help. But we are in your debt.