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4 Jan |
I seem to be on a roll lately Cycling, Day to Day Life
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posting on what seems to be an almost daily basis.
Not sure exactly why that is, especially after threatening to stop posting all together back in September, but oh well, here’s goes my 3rd post of the year, and it’s only the 4th of January. I just hope I’m not boring too many people.
It’s on days like this, when it’s raining, or threatening rain, or I don’t plan on riding, or doing much of anything at all, I like to go over who’s visiting my blog. I don’t get names, or personal information, but I do learn where everyone is from, and how they came to visit my site.
I was surprised when I reviewed the stats from the last few days, not because of where visitors were from (85% US, 5% the UK, and the balance from Canada, Germany, China, Romania etc.), but because of how they came to visit my site.
It seems about half the visitors stumbled across my site through the Huntington Beach Blog, which linked one of their posts on the happenings on New Years day in Huntington Beach, to my story on the annual New Years day bike ride.
That surprised me, because I can’t figure out how the publisher of the Huntington Beach Blog, came across my site.
And what I’m even more curious about is how many of those people, who accessed the story, were on the ride, and how many may actually know me?
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31 Dec |
Success at last! Off Topic
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Well it looks like my domain and website have been successfully transferred to my new web hosting service.
At last all the gyrations I have been going through the past couple of days are over.
Hopefully there won’t be any more bugs* occurring, but even if there should be one or two more, my new found knowledge should help me straighten them out easily.
Anywaze, the best to everyone, and have a HAPPY NEW YEAR!
*NOTE: It appears that my post notification plug-in is not working, so if you do so happen to get notification of this post, or received several notifications of this post, please let me know.
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30 Dec |
This has been a learning experience Off Topic
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They say experience is the best teacher, and changing web hosting services has easily proven just how much truth there is to that old adage.
When I decided to switch web hosting services, I thought it would be a simple task, with the new web hosting service guiding me, and essentially doing most of the heavy lifting, so to speak.
Well they certainly guided me, but they didn’t do any of the heavy lifting.
But what is so exasperating is there really isn’t much heavy lifting, and the process isn’t that difficult, provided you have all the necessary information before starting the process. It also helps to understand all the terminology involved in domain hosting.
I only wish I knew then, what I know now!
The most important thing I learned is make sure you know who your domain registrar is, and how to log on to yhe registrars website to update all your domain information, including name, address and especially what nameservers (DNS) your domain is pointed to.
Determining your registrar is easy. Simply go to Whois.Net, and type in your domain name. There you will find all sorts of information, including your registrar, your name, and most importantly the domain name servers (DNS).
The harder part is learning how to log on to your registrars site, to update any data. That can be difficult, because it is not unusual for the actual registrar to be different from the registrar referenced in the Whois database. Still all that means is you will need to make an additional call or send an additional email to get that information.
It really is that simple.
One final point, you don’t have to transfer your registrar, something I recommend you don’t do, unless you’re going to save yourself a bunch of money.
I actually knew that, but because of some terminology confusion, and my frustration getting my nameservers pointed to my new web hosting services, I inadvertently did just that.
Still, even that isn’t insurmountable, since I did save some money, but what it did do was lock my domain, so now I can’t change my name servers until the transfer is complete.
So as you might surmise, the transfer of my website to the new hosting service is still not complete, and may not be for another 5 days, until the transfer of my domain name to my new registrar is complete.
At least I finally know what is going on. so I don’t feel so helpless.
Oh well, such is life. The only consolation is I did learn quite a bit, but if I had it to do all over again, I would just stay with my original web hoster.
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19 Dec |
If it’s not one thing, it’s another Day to Day Life, Off Topic
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Just when we get a reprieve from two weeks of temperatures in the 30’s, now the rain starts.
So here I sit, surfing the net and rambling on my blog. No bike ride for me today. 
I just don’t know how people back east and the midwest, cope with even worse weather, and I was born and raised in Pittsburgh.
I did manage to get a lift though, after reading some Gilda Radner quotes.
Check them out, especially the last interview with Jane Curtin. Who knows, it might even improve your day as well.
Gilda was one of the best!