Wordpress 2.1.3 upgrade and web host server migration
The famous ‘5-minute’ Wordpress installation this time took me a day and a half. Ooops. Prior to installing WP 2.1.3 I forgot to check whether or not my site and blog were hosted on a server running MySQL 4.0 or greater and PHP 4.2 or greater. There was a MySQL incompatibility unfortunately. I realized this after loading WP 2.1.3 and running the WP intsall script. To my chagrin I received an error message that said the server’s version of mysql wasn’t compatible with Wordpress. I hate when that happens.
I spoke with my webhost and they informed me that I needed to migrate my data from a Shared-Server to a Grid-Server. Apparently Shared-Servers have problems with resource hogs and Grid-Servers have largely solved the resource hog issue.
The next step was to modify the DNS zones for the server transition. It took 12 hours for the DNS zones to modify. Once that was done all I had to do was click a button and migrate my data. My host only allows data migration between 6pm and 6am.
So I waited 13 hours for the DNS zones prep and then last night around 7pm migrated data. After that I ran the WP upgrade script. Everything worked out peachy creamy and Halle’s Smoooth Words ‘O Wisdom is up and running again. This time powered by WP 2.1.3.
Yeeemotherbleeepinghaaaa.
