Bliss. I just moved over from shared hosting to a virtual dedicated server on GoDaddy. It’s just incredibly faster, and a lot more configurable. Moving this blog over seems fairly problem free. Although I seem to have a problem uploading images for some reason.

Oh, just needed to chmod a bit, seems like it’s a common problem. Look, an upload: Mick West jumping a pillarbox

I also needed to chmod my perl scripts, and cpan install Geo::METAR and Gedcom, and now my scripts work again!!! Woot!!!

And I can have spaces in filenames, so my old genealogy document gallery is back up and running (when the FTP finishes):

http://mickwest.com/family/wdocs/index.htm

Oh, and “Pretty permalinks” work, meaning this post has the much nicer like of:

http://mickwest.com/2007/01/15/sweet-server/

rather than some random number.

What this means is: I no longer have any use for Yahoo, the final straw was when i emailed them asking if there was a way of changing the height of the email box, they email back a stock answer discussing the width. Yahoo needs to invest in some development.