May 02 2008
Jesus - Migration Complete…
Well, I think I can safely say that, if anything could go wrong with this migration, it pretty much did…
1. A normal, sane person would probably import all posts into the new blog before doing something as daring as, I don’t know, migrating DNS to a new blog. Not me, though. I decided to change the DNS settings first, then wait half a day for them to propagate. That made importing the rest of the blog a little too interesting for my taste. Naturally, since the domains had changed, the blog couldn’t tell what posts were duplicates, what weren’t, and would arbitrarily choose to avoid importing half of them. This eventually led to me deleting all of the posts and reimporting. Good times!
2. A normal, sane person would probably import all of the posts and make sure they didn’t break the blog. Not me, though… which, of course, led to one of the posts here breaking the blog for half the day. Nice!
Yeah. This is what happens when I try to do stuff like this on almost no sleep. Not a good idea.
I’ll post more later, I assure you.
Oh well, even with all that and 30-40 minutes of server downtime, you still managed to pull off a more successful migration than Penny Arcade a few weeks back.