Site Update!

Kieran.Block — Sat, 10 May 2008 03:48:00 GMT

Due to an external request, I have made some changes to the website.

First, my blog has moved from http://www.block.net.au/cs to http://www.block.net.au/blogs/kieran

Second, I would like to welcome James Kindon to the site, and thank him for his contributions - his blog is at http://www.block.net.au/blogs/james and his articles will be published on the helpsite -> http://www.block.net.au/help

Finally, we have added more of the Community Server functionality (and upgraded to the latest version) and now have a forum - I am not expecting wild amounts of traffic just yet, but if nothing else it will give us a chance to answer the questions you have about our articles.

I am very excited about the changes and look forward to pushing out even more content for your benefit.

Thanks,

Kieran

Just when you thought it was over...

Kieran.Block — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 18:27:00 GMT

Right, so I got my blog up and running on my SBS machine, fighting tooth and nail to get it to happen, and then made the fatal mistake of telling people about it...

It then became blatantly obvious that my link was by no means up to hosting any kind of website, and was inflicting horrendous load times of up to 20 seconds!

So, it was time for a little bit of outsourcing. With zero research into the matter, I decided that GoDaddy was the place to be - I have dealt with them before, and knew that they were reasonably (if not fantastically) priced.

$10 per month later, I have 100GB of space at my disposal, and load times that are very reasonable (well inside the 4 second window).

My lack of research then decided to kick me in the face, when I found out that installing CommunityServer onto GoDaddy was akin to licking a watermelon into shape.

Fortunately, this guide was absolutely perfect, and worked with only one slight hiccup. You cannot have Frontpage Extensions AND CommunityServer running on the same hosting plan (GoDaddy uncooly force all sites and subsites in the same plan to use the same settings).

The only other thing to note, if you want to blog to be at the root of the site, the previous DLL that I used (below) will not work with GoDaddy. You will need to use this

So, blog works, company website doesn't (search, contact and TOC). That is fine though, I am content with rebuilding them in ASP or leaving them out entirely - it just adds to the snowballing project that is my website!

Kieran

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Site Update!

Just when you thought it was over...