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October 23, 2007
Moving house…
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the “long” and “glorious” history of ausculture.com, The oldest surviving post is Email stupidity from the 28th January 2004.
Back when the site started in 2004 it was hosted on a Celeron 1000 PC in my spare room, running off a Telstra Bigpond cable connection. Now, anyone who ever owned a Celeron 1000 or who used Bigpond cable in 2004 might guess that this wasn’t sustainable for a site that gets more than one visitor a day. Since very early days ausculture.com has been getting at least two visitors a day, often as many as three.
So, some time in 2004 I moved the site over to another server where it has lived ever since more or less continuously - there were hiccups like me losing the domain but nothing major in terms of site live time.
Recently it became necessary to consolidate some hosting and so, with a certain amount of fear I undertook the task of moving ausculture.com to another server and hosting platform. Manually.
Ouch.
Moving db’s, files, mail, ftp accounts and re-installing both movabletype and the php engine that powers the homepage was an excruciating experience. Both hosts are external and I think I’ve had an ftp program running transferring files for the better part of three days (yes, I’m aware that the content pages could be rebuilt on the new server but for the blog, there’s actually quite a bit of… legacy content and I didn’t want poor old Googlebot not being able to find half of what it sees as ausculture.com.)
So, here it is. What I would call the final resting place of ausculture.com. It’s not moving from here (after all, it no longer produces content so it’s already on life support) so the site will be riding this hosting all the way to the bottom.
As a note, if anyone finds anything broken then let me know. I’m sure I missed something.
Posted by Patrick at October 23, 2007 5:14 PM— Filed under Common
Comments
Jess said on Defamer Australia that Ausculture was ‘with God now’. Having seen the panda pic I’m thinking maybe it’s in The Other Place!!! ;-)
Liking the new community posting thingo. It strikes me a bit of real blogging could fit in with that pretty well. Perhaps half a dozen or so carefully chosen bloggers – well, carefully enough that they have an idea of defamation and other legalities and would uphold the Ausculture spirit. Maybe a box using the blog’s RSS feed could be rigged up on the new home page’s sidebar; if there was no new content for a while it wouldn’t matter as there’d still be new voted posts going up. The blog posts wouldn’t be voted; the five newest post titles (only) would automatically list and people would click or not, depending how they wanted to use the site. You’d effectively be the commissioning editor I guess, but I don’t think that would involve too much once the bloggers were sorted.
When you have your own themed blog there’s a lot of pop culture stuff that doesn’t fit in with it but that you still fancy writing about – happens to me all the time. I know a standout blogger I could ask. (And I’d be up for it too, esp during next year’s BB.)
Who knows, the Zeitgeist herself could even be tempted to post occasionally...
Posted by: Al Cad | October 25, 2007 9:05 AM
Hey,
Certainly it would be easy enough to integrate blog posts into the new community posting site. I'd even go so far as to say the posts could appear more prominently than the sidebar.
Tell you what, if anyone is interested in posting Australian oriented pop culture related nonsense on ausculture.com, send me an email on patrick@ausculture.com with the word ausculturetastic somewhere in the subject (so I can find it amongst the deluge of spam that I get on that email address.)
Alternatively, you can comment here stating your intent. Just be mindful that since the move I haven't had a chance to performance tune the new MT install yet so comment posting is currently painfully slow.
When we have a decent number of willing content submitters I'll consult the Zeitgeist...
Posted by: Patrick | October 25, 2007 12:14 PM