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This Should Be Better

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Sorry about the bit of downtime earlier today. I actually moved my site over to a new set of servers in an attempt to improve performance.

When you ask people about GoDaddy.com, most people either hate them or love them. Me? Well, I’m mostly on the love the side of the house. I’ve never had any kind of major problem with them. In fact, when my site was running e107, someone exploited an issue with the services trackback functions. A support rep from GoDaddy contacted me, and we worked to resolve the issue.

I’ve been hosted on GoDaddy now for several years, and like I said, no major problems. However, for the last few months, I’ve noticed a considerable slowdown that just shouldn’t be there considering I’m running a single instance of WordPress. I upgraded PHP, MySQL, and removed plugins in an attempt to speed things up. Nothing had anything more than a marginal impact. So last night, I upgraded my hosting plan moving from GoDaddy’s Linux Shared Hosting package to their new Linux Grid Hosting (beta) package.

I’m really not sure what they mean by beta hosting, but so far it is certainly faster.

Now that the site is working, I’ll have another moment of downtime while I upgrade my WP install to v2.7. ;)

Back To Black

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Back when I first started my own site, it was black, crimson, and silver. Over the years my site has evolved quite a bit, and along with it the colors have changed. The most dramatic change was back when I started using e107, I found a blue/silver theme that I really liked and stuck with that for a while. It looked nice, but it just wasn’t me and I’ve been wanting to get back to black for sometime now.

While it may not be as black as previous versions of my site, I’ve come up with a new theme that I think fits me pretty good. I just finished it up this morning, so there could still be a few bugs lingering around. If you come across anything that looks odd, or is just totally fraked up, please let me know. I’ll get to the bug squashing as soon as possible.

Hope you enjoy the new layout and the new features!

e107 v0.7.11 Released

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With the new year comes a new release for the e107 CMS. You may recall that e107 is the CMS that I previously used here on d3bruts1d.com. I switched to WordPress because I didn’t need most of what e107 offered,  and with each new release of e107 it failed to offer anything new.

e107 v0.7.11 is a bug fix release, and again offers no new features. The team points out that this will most likely be the last release of the 0.7 branch, and the team will be refocusing their efforts on the development of e107 v0.8. When will e107 v0.8 be released? They don’t have an answer for that, just expect it to be done, when it’s done.

Don’t get me wrong, e107 is a fabulous CMS , however after several years, it was no longer for me.

WordPress 2.4 Note

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Just noticed this post about WordPress 2.4. Granted, after a month I’m just now finding time where I can play around with WordPress a bit more, but I noticed right away that it was quick… and a hell of a lot quicker than e107. If WordPress 2.4 turns out to be even quicker than this, especially when using custom themes, I’m excited. I hate waiting for a website to load, especially when there is no reason for it to drag.

Wonder what else they have in store for the next major version.

d3bruts1d’s e107 News Archive

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Being that I am no longer using e107 as my CMS, I no longer have a reason or need to continue to maintain my e107 News Archive page that I built forever ago. It was still working a month ago, so things should be good until the e107 devs do something drastic with their code. — I don’t expect that to be for many years. :p

For anyone interested in using it, including the e107 core developers or any other e107 hackers you can find the source code here. Feel free to modify, use, or distribute. If you want to install it, save the code to a file called archive.php and upload it to the e107 “root” directory. — Do NOT put it in the plug ins directory as that just won’t work.

I’ll be happy to answer any questions anyone has about it, just please don’t expect any changes to it.