website migration survival tactics

Apr 26, 2019

After a week of migrating websites to another server, good ole’ whatifitdid.com came out on the other side intact. The stress of downtimes and other challenges gave Gracie a headache… but Dharma kept her cool and retained her typical diva persona.

Libby the diva kept her cool

Two more sites to migrate — I left the most important ones for last. The official site of my money-maker and the anchor site for the old server. Editing zone files combined with the set-up process the new server uses for SSL certificate installation, the probability of email going down for a bit is right at 110%.

For the record, if you have a site whose main page will load but all others throw a 500 server error… edit the .htaccess file and review your server cache settings. And finally…

Happy birthday to the best son on the planet!

Happy birthday, Ben!