World and Writing of Adam David Carter
I have moved to a new webhost. There should be no change for anybody reading it but I have had a bit of a strain getting it up and running.
I will say that my new host Tsohost has been fantastic. Both Dave who helped with a website file issue and Rossy C who sorted out my website migration were brilliant.
I’m going to try cobble together a post for tomorrow.
So if you are seeing this that means everything is working.
Which is good.
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So I have prevaricating and procrastinating about which web host to move my website to but now I have had the decision taken out of my hands.
I still have a issue when I upload my pictures to here. And when I was looking into a new host I found that the Renewal for my current host will be in august and they require thirty days notice or they will charge to full amount.
So my procrastination will have to stop.
I am going to go with Tsohost to start with. Whilst searching I came across Krystal Hosting as well and they seem very good.
But this does mean that I will have to sort out and there might be down time. Not that I think many people will notice. I notice and that is the point.
I will up when there is more news.
I can always tell how long I have been away from my blog by how many plugins need updating.
Well I’ll start with the bad news.
My favourite coffee shop is closing down. Nothing to do with not making money but because the office block it is part of needs the space for showers and cycle storage1. Which is a bummer.
But there is also good news.
I have finally started writing again. I was being super productive and trying to use most of my time.
And it made me go mental. I just couldn’t relax without worrying I was wasting my time. I got so pent up with it. The stress was effecting my writing and my full time job that pays for my bills.
But after having relaxation forced upon me (I have been off from my full time work due to sickness) I was watching to shows I had started not finished. I was idly writing idea for stories and the pressure had gone away and I was not stress as I was before.
I need to worry less about not using the most of my time. And take time to make sure I relax.
For a while now I have had problems uploading pictures to my website.
I put it down to latest update of WordPress not working with my version of Safari. As it would work with chrome or mobile Safari.
But it turns out that it was a bit more severe than that. I can no longer upload any picture as I get an error that my server has run out memory.
I have contacted my web host for a support and a kind gentleman called Bogdan has increased my memory limit from 8MB to 128MB which apparently the limit of my hosting account.
This has not fixed the issue and I have to wait and see if Bogdan has any other option.
So I am now looking for hosting alternative.
I could go for SquareSpace is site but as I have three website I’ll need their Business plan which is €18 a month.
Another option is WordPress.com account. This starts at £2.50 but I need to pay for website I have with them. And the to use any additional features of WordPress.com it would start from an additional £7.08-£20.83 per website.
Another problem with these solutions is I would have to start my website from scratch. No old posts and no third party plugins.
Well I will have to keep searching whilst I wait for an answer from Bogdan.
When I updated my website to WordPress 4.7 and went to the new Twenty Seventeen Theme by Automatic. As it is picture heavy theme I thought I would use a picture of I took of Brindley Place in Birmingham.
Then I leaned that I add multiple photos to the header section and have it load a random one each time someone visited the site. Now I added a lovely fisheye picture of me and my wife1.
Then I found the awesome Prisma App which uses AI apparently to turn pictures in to fancy painted version of famous styles.
What I am going to do is take more picture through the year and add them as headers which will cool. Or else.
Side from that the update to 4.7 has brought some instabilities on Safari. I have to upload to my pictures from the mobile Safari on my iPhone as multi file loader will not work on Safari on my Mac. And loading file one at time is a pain.
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