Ed's Big Plans

Brief: So, I’ve gone out and bought nameserver access from DynDNS so that “eddiema.ca” will actually be the final resolved domain for my site rather than needing to forward it onto “tin.blogdns.com”– the only problem is that moving wordpress from one domain to another is terrible. While it’s still the same physical server, there are a number of icky steps I have to take to edit each URL with the stem “tin.blogdns.com” to “eddiema.ca”– there are a few plug-ins that can assist, but the probability of this breaking the installation is pretty high. I haven’t started on this yet because it’ll take a few hours, so I’ll save it for the weekend after all this work AND the final scholarship application (OGS!) are finished. For the meantime, I should put a link in the test page on “eddiema.ca” that points here. Ironic…

Aside: It took roughly 18 hours for the DNS server and whatever caching mechanisms that exist with GoDaddy (and my client-side ISP, Distributel) to settle down and consistently point “eddiema.ca” to me. For a while, it would jump back and fourth between a parking page from GoDaddy and my test page. This is normal behaviour though– in reality, I got lucky– the estimated time provided by each GoDaddy and DynDNS was 48 hours for the update to finalize, and from some do-it-yourself testimonials up to 72 hours. Note to self: Don’t fiddle with settings when they’re being processed– that restarts the delay!