{"id":454,"date":"2009-07-31T22:25:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T21:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/owlfish.com\/weblog\/?p=454"},"modified":"2020-06-01T21:50:59","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T20:50:59","slug":"owlfish-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2009\/07\/owlfish-on-the-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Owlfish on the move"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_459\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/owlfish.com\/weblog-media\/2009\/07\/lizard.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-459\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  wp-image-459 size-full\" title=\"Click for a larger view\" src=\"https:\/\/owlfish.com\/weblog-media\/2009\/07\/lizard-small.jpg\" alt=\"Small green lizard\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident green lizard at Kew.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The owlfish.com domain has moved hosts.\u00a0 Up until now the site has run on a shared hosting service.\u00a0 After 9 years like this it&#8217;s finally grown up and moved to a virtual server, hosted by <a title=\"Slicehost - virtual server hosting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slicehost.com\/\">slicehost<\/a>.\u00a0 The slice is actually the one that runs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.splashofwine.com\/\">Splash of Wine<\/a>, but as this is very lightly used it makes sense to host Owlfish on the same virtual machine.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main motivators for doing this was to upgrade my weblog software.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been running this site on <a title=\"Static HTML website generator\" href=\"http:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/software\/PubTal\/\">PubTal<\/a> for a long time now, and while it&#8217;s easy to use, it does mean certain features are not available.\u00a0 In particular I wanted to add comment facilities to my weblog, something that&#8217;s impossible to do with static HTML file generation.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still using PubTal for the rest of the site, but the weblog has been migrated into WordPress.<\/p>\n<p>The DNS change is still propagating through the system, so for the new next few hours there will be periodic glitches and possibly delayed email.\u00a0 Looking at the initial set of logs the transition seems to have worked smoothly with no broken links &#8211; if something isn&#8217;t working please let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The owlfish.com domain has moved hosts.\u00a0 Up until now the site has run on a shared hosting service.\u00a0 After 9 years like this it&#8217;s finally grown up and moved to a virtual server, hosted by slicehost.\u00a0 The slice is actually the one that runs Splash of Wine, but as this is very lightly used it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}