Virtually, that is. And thanks to some URL rewrite magic, you hopefully didn’t notice a thing. As I mentioned in New Web Hosting, the new server is a bit snappier with PHP applications like WordPress, which powers this blog, and Gallery2, which hosts my new photo gallery. The latter was the impetus for moving, and I do have to say that it looks pretty good loaded up with photos.
Overall, the move wasn’t too bad given everything involved: new host, setting up secure shell & FTP, moving two databases, two PHP applications, static content, and loading the gallery with a custom script. The latter was by far the most complicated, and I ultimately settled for a 90% solution. The curve to make it 100% was quickly becoming exponential 
Given it’s incompleteness and the small niche of people moving from album.pl to Gallery2, I’m rethinking the additional effort of releasing it to the world.
I didn’t track my hours for this project, which were surely obscene, but one number I did grab was 8.5 hours - the time it took to upload all my full-size photos at 84 k/s on my “high speed DSL”. That’s the last of the technical minutae for now - back to real content and taking more photos, which also have their own feed now.
