last post – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Fri, 08 Dec 2017 21:48:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg last post – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 On the eighth day of advent: the last post https://shepline.com/2017/12/08/on-the-eighth-day-of-advent-the-last-post/ https://shepline.com/2017/12/08/on-the-eighth-day-of-advent-the-last-post/#respond Fri, 08 Dec 2017 21:36:10 +0000 http://shepline.com/?p=16176 When I started at working for the university back in 2009, I inherited one website controlled by no less than 42 templates(!!), and some miscellaneous minsites that I came across as time went by. I stripped these back to one template and got the minisites just in time for a restructure at work which saw me bring the current server into use along with five core departmental sites, a faculty website an increasing number of microsites and wordpress blogs.

For almost all of this time there has been a bug in the system to do with the PHP setup that caused the server to fall over all the time and also stopped me from performing backups because everytime I tried I had to reinstall everything from scratch. But we muddled along, me and good ol’ HSSServer1. Sometimes I could go a week without it falling over, but sometimes it would happen daily, or more often, and I would have to run across the building and switch it off and and again.

At the last disaster recovery meeting I was asked what it would take to rebuild it as is, and I said we wouldn’t – we would hasten the migration of the websites. From today, we no longer have to bother it.

HSS Server1
2009–2017

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