HumidCity

Well, after the single most peculiar site move I’ve ever experienced it seems we are stable and on our new servers at Green Tangerine Media. These folks saved our site today by being willing to jump in and do the relocation on a bare few minutes notice.

You see today Alan Gutierrez, who has presented himself as ThinkNOLA since the storm, decided that the proper response to my inquiries about the multiple and highly unreasonable hold ups was to punch me in the face twice, in public, at a new media conference.

Out of respect for the organizers I laid it out that I would not press charges if he would release our database and allow Green Tangerine to relocate it before leaving the building. He did so, I am not pressing charges, and HumidCity is now safely out of the burning house of cards that was ThinkNOLA. This altercation will be the subject of a future posting once my temper has cooled enough to do it properly.

In the meantime I cannot thank Jennifer at GTM enough. I’m sure this was probably the weirdest work call she has received. I mean how often do hosting companies get emergency/move it now/ violence and police based requests from their new clients? The speed and kindness of their assistance has assured me that this is the right place for our little bunch of Internet misfits. Instant response, great communication, rapid implementation, and a cheerful attitude are all traits that seem to be hallmarks for Green Tangerine.

If you enjoy HumidCity join us in saying thank you for their emergency save by leaving a comment here. They really came though  like champs!

Coming soon: Drinks with the Inspector General, Fisticuffs on the Convention Floor, a Blog Carnival Post from Greg Peters of Suspect Device, and a sincere question about parking legalities.

-Loki, HumidCity Founder

Yes, thats right, HumidCity is moving to Portland, OR. Not only that but we leave this weekend, at least the ones and zeros do.

After two and a half years of hosting kindly donated by ThinkNOLA the HumidCity site will be relocated to servers owned by Green Tangerine Media, who are also being quite kind to us. ThinkNOLA is shutting its doors. The team writing are still in New Orleans, the attitude is still in New Orleans, but our servers will be outside the storm zone.

I am stressing this for a few reasons, first of which is the fact that we may end up with some dead time during the change. It can sometimes take a day or two for the address to map to the new server. In other words while I hope there won’t be any, the possibility of down time is one to be aware of. The move will be late at night on Friday so there will be no new blog posts from dinner time on.

In addition, those of you following on Feedburner or through Feedblitz will need to add us again after the move. The feedburner account is ThinkNOLA’s and we cannot take it with us.

I’m letting you all know about this in advance because the memory of our three days of downtime a few months back haunts me. It haunts me I tell you!

Look for some major improvements to the site in the near future!

-Loki, HumidCity Founder

Hey out there in Internet Land ™, we are now back online! Sorry about the outage, I must take responsibility for a good bit of the problem. You see I did not have the DNS set properly when we moved to the new server, and once it did get set up we experienced a long drag while waiting for the new settings to propagate. In plain English, I was not too bright and then the Internet was slow.

Thanks to the hard work of Alan Gutierrez at ThinkNOLA, the long suffering man who has donated hosting and assistance to HumidCity since the first Jazz Fest after the Levee Failure, we are now back online and upgraded to the new version of WordPress. Alan, you rock!

To the HumidCity Team: If you experience any issue with/confusion over/bad jokes about the new back end interface let me know via email and I will happily assist.

I would like to apologize to everyone fr the unintended downtime. There seems to have been some server issues which are hopefully at an end. I will be throwing up some posts I have had waiting in the course of the weekend.

I should have fresh and disturbing thoughts up later this afternoon.

Thank you for your patience!