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New blog host, new widgets, new colors and new functionality

If you are reading this then you have stumbled upon the new server for shakegently.

I’ve been absent from posting for a week as I waited for my domain registrar transfer to complete. I was previously using the wordpress.com hosting service to host my blog (with my own domain).

I outgrew their hosting platform that constrains what you can do with the site in regards to functionality (no direct code or database access), so I have been wanting to move my site for quite a while. I have been happy with the WordPress blog platform, so I’m sticking with them, just moving to a new server.

To make a long story short, I updated my DNS settings to point to my new web host (mediatemple.net) while the registrar transfer was in process from the old host (1and1.com). The DNS change was supposed to be processed before the registrar transfer was initiated.

But, as it turned out, since I initiated the registrar transfer before the DNS change had been processed by the system (apparently a 24 hour period), the existing DNS was frozen until the transfer to the new registrar was completed.

My site was still up and running through the change, so I didn’t suffer any downtime, although it was definitely an annoyance.

Yes, I realize I could have posted on both the old site and new and uploaded the new posts when the transfer was complete, but I was trying some new widgets and other things on the new site so I didn’t want to go through the process.

For the readers that have no idea what the previous few sentences were about, you can:

a) read up on domain name registrars and DNS at Wikipedia

b) take my word that there will be more posts in the future

c) disregard both and purchase a Cellar Rat Wine gift card as an early Christmas present to keep me moving through the holidays and keep the posts coming.

Look for new functionality, content and promotions very soon.

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