New Server Home for Seismic Talk
I have not made any posts for some time as I tried different software to run Seismic Talk and a couple of different hosting accounts. I tried using another gallery style as well with the images hosted on another service but could not get things set up to make it easy for other people to add albums to the gallery. After some time it was apparent that the other systems could not come close to the user friendliness of WordPress and Gallery2 with the WPG2 bridge making them work together harmoniously so I just updated the old site with a bit of a facelift and got all of the other bits up to date.
Seismic Talk is now hosted on a new account with its own IP address. I had tried to set it up on a Virtual Private Server but kept running into issues with file permissions causing automatic updating of plug-ins and the system itself to behave badly. This was not the fault of the hosting company, their equipment ran very well and served the site up faster than ever before, but one of the quirks of virtualization software in conjunction with the site software which even the best service in the world could not fix.
I could have gone back to updating things manually but laziness is a factor. The automatic updates work well on this new server and the speed should be okay even on a shared server as the system information always shows a low load factor for all of the different services and hardware.
The hosting company that I am using now did a fantastic job of moving the site with only a few small tweaks needed to get everything functional in its new home.
Hopefully now that things are set up I will be able to spend more time adding more posts for you to read.
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