Back on WordPress

I recently got a notice from Amazon that my kortina.net server (read: playground) was on failing hardware. I needed to move everything off the server and onto a new instance before July 10.

This proved quite easy on Amazon, and I took the opportunity to make a few upgrades. I upped to a newer version of Ubuntu. I mounted an EBS volume (which I first mounted on the old server and copied all of my data onto, then removed and mounted onto the new server). And I setup WordPress MU, with a few tweaks so that I can have a single codebase and database for the various WordPress blogs I host here.

I also am using the migration as an impetus to get back blogging on WordPress more. I’ve complained much about the poor SEO of Tumblr. I’m not too concerned with driving search traffic to my blog, but it’s very annoying when I myself am searching for something I know I’ve authored and cannot find it.

So I’ve consolidated a bunch of stuff. essays.kortina.net and kortina.net now just point to the WordPress instance labs.kortina.net . I’m just using the Hemingway theme, cause it’s simple and pretty. And blog.kortina.net will be less active, but I’ll import headlines from this blog over there for those who care to follow on their Tumblr dashboards.

It was a long day of sysadmin work, but things are much cleaner now and better setup for further expansion as I can now more easily add new blogs for side projects and just create static pages on labs.kortina.net for different experiments.

Expect to see some new little goodies soon. I’ve been working on some big things and some small things. I’ll post them when they’re fit for public.

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