Ponder Place

Hey, so remember when i mentioned back when that we here at ponderplace.com would be moving?

Well it didn’t happen. For whatever reason I feel very compelled to use this weekend and migrate ponderplace.com to the new hosting.

Mainly I’m afraid something will break. Ponderplace.com uses quite a few tweaks and tricks to get it to do what you see. Being that I’m not exactly well versed in website design/coding its a reasonable fear.

Cons

• It could break
• It will probably look ugly for a while
• I may not be able to get it back to the way it is now
• This will likely consume my entire weekend if not more

Pros

• I can finally start adding new features to the site
• I can remove features that have not worked out
• We will have a tagging system…
• …which means categories will actually make sense
• It’ll be newer and better(er)
• New and better are awesome
• More robust server may actually handle the digg effect (though not likely, I’m newb)
• No longer will children have to go hungry

It’s a pretty compelling list to say the least.

I started work on this tonight at around 7:00pm. I then promptly started reading digg.com and other various news sites. Which leads me to now, 8:53pm and I’ve still not accomplished anything in the move. But I am making this post. Yeay.

Anyway the gist of this message is that there may not be a post for tomorrow (Friday). And there may not even be a functional ponderplace.com. We’ll see!

*Update 11/9/2007 @ 6:59pm:

Wow, the migration has been completed. :D Things went a lot more smoothly than I’d anticipated. I started working on this at around 8:00am today (aside from the prep work I did yesterday). And just now made the last change. Granted, I took a break and watched an episode of My Name Is Earl. I also took a somewhat leisurely lunch break, as well as a half hour nap at around 4:00pm. Still 11-hours and we are back with no significant problems? Excellent.

This only means now I can apply all these updates I’ve been holding off on, quite a few improvements are on their way. See you all next week!