Haven’t been updating lately. Haven’t been doing much of anything besides working. I get home and I don’t feel like doing anything, like coding or sysadmining or any of the other stuff I love.
I’m learning a new database application for work called Alpha Five V5, from Alpha Software. It shows promise. As a PHP/MySQL kind of guy, so much of what I do revolves around basic functionality. How do I make this data available to the next page, how will I display this status message to the user, that sort of thing. It will be nice to have those things taken care of for me so I can concentrate on the meat of the application, where all the fun happens.
Today was the first real snowfall of winter. It was cold, but worth it.
There was a server move with the company hosting www.bwerp.net. This has resulted in some disarray of varying degrees, ranging from troublesome to catastrophic. Mainly:
- SSH access is no longer available. This means I cannot maintain my site with CVS and Karl can no longer update his site using CheapBlog.
- The user directory paths have been modified, and are no longer prepended with a tilde. This has broken hundreds upon hundreds of existing links to sub-pages at bwerp.net.
The site will be moved to DreamHost when motivation finds me. Nothing against Simpli, Inc. I’ve been their customer for a long time and have had a pretty positive experience, but it’s time to move along.
Life goes on.
Why would the get rid of SSH? How else do they want you to administer your “boxen”, Web based GUI (CRICKY!!!)?
Sadly, shell access with webhosting isn’t always the norm. Web based GUIs, however are ubiquitous, and although often far from perfect, they are getting pretty robust. I can’t think of anything that I can do from shell account that I can’t do from cpanel.