While I enjoy cloud storage for frequently updated documents, I decided to pick one of these up from the Apple Store for use as a Lion recovery disk and encrypted partition for secure storage. And the spring loaded clip for a keychain is perfect too.
Last night Brad and I braved the cold and the snow to see Adventure Club from Montreal. I was really impressed with how they made it seem more like a party they were attending rather than being the center of the show. Their interaction with the crowd was truly unique.
This is where it goes down now!
After migrating a few sites yesterday, I found myself caught in an odd predicament. When I would go to, say, perfect-pools.com I would be led to the new site half the time and the old site the other half. This led me to believe that the DNS for Bresnan (my internet provider here in Durango) had something odd going on. While any DNS will update if you give it long enough, I wanted something faster. The Google DNS was the first one I came across, and it seemed to be much quicker with updates. That’s why I changed the router at home to use the following servers instead of the slow Bresnan ones
8.8.8.8 - DNS 1
8.8.4.4 - DNS 2
Believe it or not, those are awesomely memorable IP addresses for Google DNS. Pretty cool, huh? Check out more information with configuration instructions here.
Wow, I just migrated 4 sites in 24 hours. So glad this went so smoothly. I am proud to say the downtime for the sites I manage was as follows:
Apart from some stubborn DNS issues that took one site offline for a few minutes (possibly longer and shorter in some places), everything went really smoothly. I am now running completely off of a Dreamhost account and I’m very impressed with the page load times. Only time will tell, but this is looking like a good fit.
I decided to ditch my previous host Squarespace and move over to a more flexible host. My business is now with DreamHost. It’ll probably take a couple days to get everything moved over, so bear with me 
