I know I should be in bed, but I just made a change to my MediaWiki install which is very important. See, it’s my understanding that Google doesn’t like it very much if you are displaying AdSense ads on non-content pages.

Since MediaWiki has lots of these which I regularly use, I don’t want to upset Google by inadvertently serving myself a bunch of ads which are on these non-content pages.

The solution? Easy. Just don’t show ads on pages for users who are logged in. Since I’m using MediaWiki as a CMS, I’m the only person who will ever be logged in. So, to solve my problem, I wrapped the includes for the ad files in this:

<?php if($this->data['loggedin']!=1) { ?>
...
<?php } ?>

I know this is really basic, but I imagine others may want to know about it, so I’m documenting it here.

Yay. All websites which I am going to continue to host and for whom the owners have contacted me have been moved to the new server.

Additionally, plans are in place to move all email over.

If things go as I’m hoping they will, I’ll have the server powered down this weekend. It’s too bad that I’m going to be wasting half a month of hosting fees with Waveform, but such is life, I guess.

I guess it’ll be back to my more ‘normal’ projects soon. :D

Things are progressing well with the server move. Except for email.

I’m having big problems with DreamHost’s email. I set up users and things just seem to never finish getting set up.

I’m not sure what’s going on yet… Hopefully tomorrow there will be someone who can explain to be what’s wrong and what is being done to fix it.

< sigh >

This is why I ran my own server before. Because if something was fucked up, it was my fault and I could only blame myself if things weren’t working right.

Option ‘B’ out of this whole thing is to drop ~$1400 on a new server and shuffle everything over to it. But then I’d have the same headaches as before.

1) I just received this IM:

[18:46] 170422095: Ready to buy iframe traffic. We pay
80-500US_dollars for 1000 installs.
- We pay with: wm, fethard, egold, WU, wire, paypal
- We pay every week
- Online statistics
- Friendly support service
- Recommendations of well-known AWMs
- We have been buying traffic for more than four years

Phil | ICQ# 362066 | AOL ScreenName: rfmciframe

I’m not accustomed to seeing such offers.

2) The following domains should have their web presence working:

http://www.bunjamin.net
http://www.kencavanaugh.com
http://briansphotos.nuxx.net
http://tydeus.nuxx.net
http://www.nythia.com
http://www.sayyestolibraries.org
http://www.trasenstine.com

I’ll probably get to a few more of them tonight. Email will take a bit more time, too. Things are done differently at the new place, and I need to take all users’ needs into account.

Except for the beer, that’s basically what I’ve been looking at for the last two days straight. Now I’m taking a bit of a break.

At the end of today I have:

· Restored all of nuxx.net, sans email. (That requires more thinking.)
· Set up vhosts for all domains which will be moved.
· Set up DNS for all domains which will be moved.
· Wholly moved nythia.com.

And… I just ran out of interest in writing any more. Ah well. :)

Anyway, things with this change are going good. Thanks everyone for being so understanding, and thanks for getting a hold of me so we can get the transfers to happen.