By: Some time next week, the blog will need to go offline for around 4 hours. My telecom provider is changing the T1 that comes in to my office, which will result in a new IP address for all of the servers here. We can add this as yet another item in the long list of all joys of self-hosting your own Wordpress blog.
As an IT guy by trade (software developer at IBM, Amercian Express and Intel), normally I would just e-mail blast the department/user group with a downtime notification. But here it’s a bit different. In fact, right now I can’t even give you a date. All I know is I wouldn’t let them do it yesterday, when they showed up with the bad news, as I was heading out for a showing.
In an ideal world I would redirect the blog to an offsite server for the day, with some DNS magic. But the ideal world and my world don’t seem to share much in common. I do have an offsite location with a T1 line going in, but I don’t have a Linux server there (just a Windows server). Perhaps for 2008 I’ll add that to the IT budget.
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