Another Rough Month
Commodore B. J. Turk, 13 September 2003

The good news is that I have secured a domain name for the club, and set up a new hosting account so I can move the club's site to its own server, getting it out from under the bjturk.com umbrella. After all, the club should have its own identity on the web as soon as I can make it happen, and I have been working toward that as I pursue other objectives for the site.

The bad news is that I am having problems with the new host's nameserver resolving properly. Once I set up the new hosting account, the domain name resolved properly and I could access the new server, but after a day, the nameserver apparently failed. As a result, the new server is inaccessible at this time. I could still move everything to that server, but it would be inacessible for the time being, and would make testing impossible. Therefore, the club site remains under bjturk.com at this time, until I can get the nameserver problem resolved, or find another hosting company that won't have the same problem. I'm already looking at other possible hosting companies, should that become necessary.



In addition (as if that weren't enough), I have been doing updates on other sites that I maintain, which have taken time away from my continuing to build the club site. I have to give them priority because they are paying me, and money talks. All of these annoyances, both profitable and not, have caused the construction of the club site to suffer.

As you can probably guess from the above, I haven't made much progress on the club site. The anticipation of moving to a new server kind of put a lot of things on hold. After all, there's not much point of putting a bunch of stuff together for the site when I'd just have to re-do it for the new server. While I was trying to work out the new hosting issues, I truthfully could have done more, but I'm afraid that I didn't.



Once the new server is ready, things should improve rapidly. Well, kind of rapidly. Then again, who knows? I've found that I may not have to build the whole forum section (if I can figure out how to integrate the existing club site with the forum already installed on the new server). That will be a major hurdle, as I will have to modify the new server's forum to incorporate elements of the member module that I have been working on.

If everything goes the way I would like it to go (which is highly unlikely, to put it mildly), then it will be a mere matter of modifying the existing databases and pages to get it all together. That should allow me to get it all together with a bit more speed than I expected before, but there's no guarantee that I won't screw something up. The fact that I'm the one doing it is a virtual guarantee that I will in fact screw something up, and quite possibly very badly.



In my mind, the worst-case scenario is that I will have to build the forum and member modules completely from the ground up, which is what I expected to have to do anyway. At least if that happens, I will know exactly what is in them and have a better idea of how to fix them when something goes wrong, which they almost certainly will. I remain committed to having the best yacht club site on the Internet, and I promise that everything will be running, if not smoothly, by the time my next birthday rolls around.

My next birthday is in May, so I've got some time...



Other Commodore's Log entries:

      Thankful (13 November 2005)
      Shorter Days, Longer Nights (13 October 2005)
      Summer's End (13 August 2005)
      Summer Sailing (13 July 2005)
      3rd Friday the 13th Status Report (13 May 2005)
      Ode to Spring (13 April 2005)
      The Misfortune Continues... (13 March 2005)

      Commodore's Log Archive (old stuff)


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