So I finally did it… 100% of all my sites are now on the new server I’ve got rented.  It only took me all night to do!  Things started out okay, I mostly just set up all my sites to download into named folders… not a big deal.  When you’re downloading 14 websites it takes a little bit of time though.  After the downloads were complete the DNS changes could begin… this is where it got interesting.  I’ve never really had any troubles with DNS changes before, they always give you the “This could take up to 12 hours” message… blah, blah, blah.  I’ve never had it take more than 20 minutes… until last night that is.  One by one some of the sites would pop onto the grid and I’d upload the files for it, create whatever databases needed to be made, and move onto the next.  This continued until about 5am when all of the remaining sites that hadn’t come into view for me decided not to (including this one).  Figured if after 5 hours they hadn’t shown up they weren’t going to I went to sleep.  At about 9am I woke up and CodySortore.com had finally become accessible.  Shortly after uploading the files for this site, and setting up the database ArchmailleDesigns.com became accessible.  I’m still waiting on three of my sites, but all of my important sites are up and running now so we’re happy with that!  I started getting tired again after having breakfast, and uploading the sites that I could so I went back to sleep.

I was rudely awoken by a dream… of course about my sites.  I was having a dream that I was checking HollysFund.com when all of a sudden after a page refresh the site was gone simply with the message “This site has been hacked by so and so h4xz0r group” I just remember my heart dropping as I didn’t make a backup of the site last night since I was working on essentially backing up and moving all my other sites.  Needless to say I got out of bed and checked the site immediately, and made a backup.

Among one of the sites I’m still waiting on to get all cleared in the DNS settings is applymyway.com which just so happens to be the one I’m going to begin work on.  I figure if I can kick out a site ASAP using CakePHP here within a month or two have a fully functional application building site, then I can launch it and start pulling in hopefully a decent revenew from it, and if not then at the very least start building a good sized mailing list.