Today, about 2 hours ago. Domain started to point my new host. I got some problems with wp, because paths on new host was different, so there was a 2 hour down-time. (but I think it is not a big thing on this blog)

As I first copied all of my wp stuff to new host and recreated db, it didn’t work. Solution was very simple.

1. Install wp to new host
2. Drop every table on new database
3. Upload database dump with data you want
4. Upload theme- and plugin-files
5. It works!

And as I haven’t blogged for 2 weeks I probably blog much more as normally for some time. Actually, it was pretty annoying when I wasn’t able to blog anything.

My current hosting provider “edullinenwebhotelli” (EWH)(finnish provider) have been very cheap, but still very usable service. But now it looks like my previous host, futuron, now owns EWH. I really liked the ewh service, but now I can’t thrust that futuron won’t ruin my site again.

The problem here is that futurons servers are horrible. Customer service is slow and the servers are awful. And now my site is moving to futuron…

I am not sure what to do. I may move to new webhosting service, move to new virtual server or just stop this website.

I don’t want to be again on futuron’s servers.

Now Wordpress is even more awesome platform! After upgrading to it with automatic upgrade plugin, I found great clean and fast interface. There is several features that makes life much easier.

No more FTP Yes, no more ftp. I can now upgrade the whole Wordpress with couple of clicks, without ftp. Now it is even possible to install plugins just by choosing them from admin panel.

Great interface Much better interface to navigate on admin panel. Dashboard is now customizable. (when will Wordpress get netvibes/iGoogle like widget support?)

My ideas from my previous post are now true. Wordpress is now perfect. Only thing I would like to have is themes for admin panel.

I recently have released new version of my website. Now it is good time to look what I have done. Two and half years ago, I started my website on free hosting. There wasn’t lots of content and the layout weren’t very good… Here is screenshot from early layout. I have unfortunately lost the first original layout.

After sometime, I decided to move to “real” webhosting. After that I installed Wordpress and tried to have a blog. I didn’t have enough time/skills to keep it up, so I went to “normal” website. I installed Joomla for two months. I hated joomla and moved back to hand code my website.

Old Pelikoira website. CMS is cutenews.

After couple of big difficulties on my hosting, I moved to new servers, and got much better systems. I restarted blogging with better succession.

Couple days ago, I read some of my text on my website, I realized that the content isn’t good. Most of text contains lots of typos and it’s mostly boring.

So I recreated my website in two parts. Blog and Website. Blog is the place where I write my random thoughts, and other stuff. On the “main” website you can find my projects, links and other non-blogging stuff.

Screenshot of Pelikoira website before total makeover.

So what is my records? Well, one of my popular pages is the joke about vista’s source code. It got very popular on stumbleupon with over 350 comments. I got about 80,000 unique visitors in two days. Best hit was about 130,000 unique visitors on my website at year 2008 on my previous server. The page was http://www.pelikoira.net/stumble. Stats are here.

Old content is now deleted, but  you can still access the downloads to get old stuff. Some big projects are coming soon…

http://www.pelikoira.net

Ohloh is social website for aimed open source developers. It is also great way to find nice open source projects.

Anyone can add a open source project to Ohloh and then Ohloh uses svn (or git) to download projects source code for analyzing. After analyzing you can see how many lines of code is on example Vim, Firefox or even Linux Kernel. Also smaller projects are analyze not just, major softwares. There is also commit history and cool graphs that show amount of code lines.

There is also social part. Registered users can add information to profile and update a twitter like “journal”. The idea of journal is cool, but it is hard to get every one on project to use it actively.

Ohloh is great website for open source developer. I recommend it for everyone who writes open code and likes web 2.0 websites.