A few weeks ago, I replaced my Gateway Tablet PC under Best Buy’s extended warranty no-lemon policy. In exchange for that computer, I got one of HP’s newest tablets, the TouchSmart tx2-1025dx. My initial impression is actually really good. I’ve never really liked Vista, but on this PC it just works. Granted, this is a really powerful PC. It’s got 4GB of RAM, 320GB of HD and a decent AMD dual core 64-bit processor. This said, the integration of touch into the operating system is great. This machine has multitouch technology on the display. Basically, it’s like a big iPhone/iPod Touch running Windows Vista. This is all really well integrated into Vista.
This PC has nTrig’s latest capacitive and active digitizer where you can use both your fingers and a electrostatic pen. The pen is quite good. My only complaint about the pen is the lack of an eraser, but I’ve heard that one’s in development. The touch screen is also really good. I find myself using the touch screen pretty often. Heck, I find myself in tablet mode far more often than I did with the old PC.
All in all, I’m really impressed. This could very well become my primary PC, especially, if it becomes my notebook.
Moving a WordPress installation from one server to another or from one host to another is actually quite simple. There are several ways in which to do it.
Way #1:
1) Install WordPress on the new server using its installer.
2) Replace the newly created database with your old one.
3) Edit the wp1_options table to reflect any changes in your hostname.
4) Copy any remaining file elements such as themes (without the proper theme all you’ll get is a blank page) and uploads.
5) Go to yoursite.tld/wp-admin and update the database if necessary.
6) Done!
Way #2:
1) Copy your WordPress directory to your new site.
2) Copy over your database to your new site.
3) Edit the wp-settings.php file to reflect your new database information
4) Edit the wp1_options table in the database to reflect changes in your hostname.
5) Done!
I took way #1 because it was easier for me. I didn’t really have any uploads, and only one theme, so it was easy enough just to copy those and the DB. I also needed to upgrade my version of WordPress, so I killed two birds with one stone anyway.
I’ve known about DreamHost for about 7 years now and have often considered moving my website there. However, I never had any real motivation to do it. This weekend, my motivation came along in the form of a year of hosting for under $10. That far beats me hosting my sites on my own server. (Though, I’m still going to maintain my own server for ease of development; developing locally is simply easier).
In honor of Earth Day and DreamHost’s being carbon neutral, they had a special for new accounts for a whole year of hosting (and free domain, which I have yet to claim) for $9.80. I’ve pulled over this site and my Dad’s site, however, I have a lot to consider with maliszewski.us and maliszewski.net. The DNS for those sites is pretty complicated because it was pretty much happy-go-lucky as I set it up. There have to be at least 50 records for maliszewski.us. I need to rethink the way I set that up. I moved my VPN subzone into its own zone file, so I’m on my way to moving those over to DreamHost. In the mean time, I think I might just setup an A record and hope the IP doesn’t change. (I doubt it will).
All in all, this move has been pretty painless and simple. I had a little bit of a problem moving over the DB for WordPress. I ended up SFTPing it and using the shell to insert it into mysql on their server (their phpmyadmin configuration is a bit messed up). However, shell access is included on all accounts for anyone who wants it.
Generally speaking, I’m quite pleased. We’ll see.