* knock on wood

My host provider has started to set the wheels in motion and get our new “Dedicated Server” ready for use .. This process should be completed by early morning (CST) and at that point all files will (probably) be transfered over.

Hopefully - this will be painless process .. Although I won’t be posting new articles tonight - I do have some PRE-posted articles coming through a few of the sites …

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* This is a looooong post! If you prefer to just read the “Short Version” .. click HERE!

I used to have two ISP servers. ISP#1 was a super-mega account, downgraded a few notches to just a mega account. ISP#2 was a reseller account that I used to create and build up sites in the HART-Empire Network. I found both accounts at a reasonably managed level to pay and service was spectacular and I never had any downtime, that I can think of .. or any server crashes or problems. Support and service was exceptional.

But - around the middle of May 2007 .. I found out that I had already exceeded my monthly alotment of bandwidth on the ISP#1 account, and perhaps it was time to upgrade. I decided to slow down on my postings around the network, but by the end of the month I had exceeded my bandwidth limits by over 18 GIG traffic. My ISP#1 wanted me to upgrade to a larger account. However, the bandwidth limits on this larger account would have been that I would have exceeded my bandwidth alotment by 3 GIG if it remained the same. It was obviously not enough.

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I originally started this domain to be a forum for all the “Battling-Series” of blogs but, the spam is unmanageable in its current configuration - using phpBB … I know it’s not the latest version that has been released (I’m running phpBB v2.0.19 and the latest version is phpBB v2.0.22) but, this is what my issues are:

* I’m using a tool script to delete all the spam users to ban their IP or username etc .. but, it doesn’t delete the posts. So - I get a lot of “Deleted” posts. This takes too much time to delete and ban once and for all.

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Yesterday between the hours of 1:39pm CST and 5:14pm CST all of my sites were down. It seems that my new VPS (Virtual Private Server) may not be sufficient for my needs for as long as I had hoped. I figured, I would not have to upgrade to a full dedicated server until the Fall 2007 or early 2008.

But, a process reached a critical level and killed many other processes, and halted everything. All that seemed to have been needed was figuring out how to “correctly restart the named/bind services”.

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For some reason, my wordpress MySQL database for The-Singers.com is damaged. If you click on a link in the sidebar’s tag cloud, you can access the posts .. however, for all intent and purposes, wordpress does not recognize that there is a single post in this blog.

I’m almost sure it has something to do with a plugin, but you know what? I don’t care.

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Oy.

Okay. I’ve got a lot of blogs and I do have backup routines in place. Basically, every night a backup of the MySQL database is being emailed to one of my gMail accounts .. for every blog of mine.

But, after 3154 emailed backups with attachments .. I have finally received the following in my regular email.

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

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* I’m keeping track of my HART-Empire Earnings for 2007 Online ..

Here is the link: HART-Empire Network Earnings Spreadsheet Document

June 2007 was a transitional month for me, and the HART-Empire Network. I basically shut down my blogs for half a month while moving to a new server. And, it was quite a challenge. I wasn’t moving one or a handful of blogs .. I was moving over 45 blogs in total. SIX of those blogs shared the same MySQL database and the actual database .sql file was over 400 MB in size! It was quite hard to backup, and even during restoration .. there were issues because of its size. I managed to segregate all the six blogs into a unique MySQL database for each blog .. and get that working.

As for the June 2007 earnings … the earnings are on an “Accrual” basis, where I’m documenting what I’ve earned, but monies will usually come in the following month, or (if ever) when I reach the minimum threshold for release of my earnings for payment. The expenditures are on a “Cash” basis, as I pay something related to my online earnings, I just load up the spreadsheet and modify it. At the moment, I am at the cottage and there are a few small accounts not verified. I will update during the week.

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Okay .. so, it’s really no big deal being the first post under the “so-called” NEW Name for this blog .. which, is the same name that’s been on the header image since Day-one!

July 1st marks an important day every year for me .. June 30th has come and gone! That means, that there should be much less stress on the offline work giving me much more time to concentrate on the online work!

And - this summer will be different than last summer, because I now can access Hi-Speed internet on my laptop at the beach with my new EVDO card! .

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