Wow. I just came back from a house-warming party which took place in a mate’s new flat in Karlsruhe (90km from where I live). We partied hard till nearly 5am and I was really surprised that it took the cops so long to crash the party – it was as loud as in a club and I guess you could here the party from five blocks away.

After the cops told us to settle down a little and close the doors and windows it was really time to get some sleep – or at least to try. I didn’t get any as there were people snoring, opening the door, shouting around, closing the door all around me. So I tried to at least relax a little, which I did, although it wasn’t all that comfortable on the wooden floor, until 9am.

After a little water to the face and brushing my teeth it was time to check out the flat and oooooh boy, you really saw that this was one hell of a party (I guess there were around 80people at the party with around 1/3 partying till well after 5am) – some puke here, some puke there, loads of broken beer bottle, cigarettes everywhere and you could hardly get your feet off the floor (did some spill “a little” something everywhere?! – yup!). So we took off to a small pub to get some breakfast and after some coffee and sitting outside in the sun I wasn’t feeling tired at all. That change right as we drove back. So I’m starting to get really tired atm, so I guess I’ll close the laptop after this post and try to get some rest/sleep right here on the couch :-)

I’m currently having major difficulties with my mail at dreamhost, the service has been up and down all day and I can’t get into webmail. Support ticket submitted, no response yet although I guess they’re aware of the situation and are on it (currently open tickets >500, open tickets when I submitted mine: >300).

Update: server issue resolved, support ticket removed… :-)

Oh no. Alright, it’s autumn and all, but why now? It’s two weeks till project deadline (S.E.S.S.) and now I’ve caught a bad case of a cold with sore throat and all :-(

Nontheless my To-Do-List is still nearly endless so I need to get all my strength together this afternoon and get some things done. Wish me luck.

Alrighty, after a short night I took some time to get everything up and running this morning. You can see the results of my efforts here, here and here). It was indeed not dreamhost’s fault that the site wouldn’t show up, it was mine (D’oh) – to make a long story short: I used my second shell user to upload all the stuff and unfortunately home of user1 != home of user2, so I basically just uploaded it to the wrong folder (web was configured to use /home/user1/fcm2.info/ as www-root…and I uploaded the stuff to /home/user2/fcm2.info/ ). So thumbs up…everything up and running in less than an hour including 3 DBs, 3 subdomains and their respective dns-updates :-)

Conclusion so far:

• The speed of the server I’m on is awesome…
• It’s good to have shell access once again (the content move was quite easy this way, ssh to new server, connect to old server via ftp and download all the stuff, done)
• The Control panel is really something you need to get used to, I’d still rather have CPanel, but I guess I can live with it
• What am I complaining about anyway? 1 Year hosting including a top-level domain for 0.77$/month (first year)…w00t ;-)

…alrighty. After signing up the domain was registered less than an hour later (thumbs up). Shell access working fine (thumbs up). No CPanel?!? (thumbs down).

Now after trying to get some mysql-databases to work right away (impossible, argh, thumbs down), I’m a little bit disappointed atm as I had planned to export some dbs from my other server and import them and get the site up and running, which didn’t work out due to different reasons:

• No CPanel? You gotta be kidding me – CPanel might not be the securest thing in the world, but it’s the fastest and easiest way to get everything going (fast and right away) – and the DreamHost Panel is really something you need to get used to.
• MySQL-DBs take some time to get activated…
• …and now there’s only an index page and not the real page showing…argh!
• After almost 16h infront of a computer screen it’s time to get my eyes some rest…maybe everthing will be up and running tomorrow

Enough for now, I guess “the world will look brighter” again tomorrow and I’m sure DreamHost will stand up to it’s reputation of being on of the best hosts around :-)

Hmm, today I received a package from one of my hardware retailers containing a lovely new Sony DRU700a DVD-burner. I had to send in my old DVD-Burner (Sony DRU500a), which I had bought in December 2002, cause it wouldn’t burn any discs anymore…and because my model was the oldest model of their line (the first Dual 4x DVD-Burner ever) and they didn’t have that anymore the sent me one of their newest models. The new Burner is a 8x/8x/2.4x/40x one (DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD+R9/CD-R).

Now I need to figure out if I should sell it (at a low price of around 80€ – can you believe that I had payed 399€ back in 2002 for the then top of the line model?) or keep it – “unfortunately” I already bought a new DVD-Burner (LG GSA4120B – 8x/12x/2.4x/40x (DVD-R/DVD+R/ DVD+R9/ CD-R)) the moment I had to send in the old one ;-)