Grym’s Rant

What are you looking at?

Grymwulf.com

Well, I tried to get everything the way I wanted on www.grymwulf.com, but it just wasn’t coming together the way I wanted. I grew frustrated too quickly, and ended up switching it all around too many times. I apologize for that. I’m going to leave everything like it is, making www.grymwulf.com redirect to this site until I can get a CMS that does what I want, the way I want, and will look how I want it. Otherwise, this is enough for now.

December 20th, 2006 Posted by Grymwulf | Rant | no comments

So far, so good…

Well it seems that the server/provider move has been rather successfull.  As many of you may have noticed, I’ve set this site to the sub-domain of blog.grymwulf.com, and going to grymwulf.com will redirect you here.  That is because I’m not sure what I am going to do with the main domain.  I may continue using the blog here, or I just might decide on a content management system to take over for the full site.

Currently the grymwulf.com domain is broken down as follows:

  • wiki.grymwulf.com - Documentation and frequently asked questions.  Using MediaWiki 1.8.2 with a custom compiled php.cgi to allow larger uploads and more memory for processing.
  • forum.grymwulf.com - The forums, I plan on migrating this over to the custom php.cgi after I determine how stable it is with the wiki, which would allow me to post the larger compilations and add-ons that I like to keep updated.
  • blog.grymwulf.com - This blog, I’m not sure if I will upload any shareware/freeware/zip files, so I’m not sure if I will move this to the custom php.cgi or not.
  • test.grymwulf.com - This is the site that I use to test out any CMS or other website/application framework that I’m interested in.  So far I’ve worked through tikiwiki (way too large and all-encompassing), Ruby on Rails (couldn’t get this to work properly), Typo3 (way too complicated for my needs and wouldn’t work properly.  Couldn’t ‘unhide’ content.), CakePHP (needed too much hand-coding for my needs right now), and Joomla! 1.5 Beta (current).
  • grymwulf.dnsalias.net - My home server, it allows me to SSH into my network and manage applications.  Currently showing a default Apache installation successfull page.

December 15th, 2006 Posted by Grymwulf | Rant | no comments

Server move

Well, I took the plunge and have moved domain servers and hosting providers over to Dreamhost. So far, so good as the transition has been pretty smooth for most of everything. The blog, as you can see, is fully functional. The forum is waiting for the forum files to be fully uploaded before that will be 100% operational

I’m hoping that this provider can provide the consistent service that I want, as Powweb was just not cutting it with their very slow servers, and erratic server performance. I also enjoy the fact that this provider allows me both shell/ssh access and an SVN repository. Taken together, this will enable me to pursue some of the personal projects that I have postponed.

More on that later, and thank you for your patience during this move!

December 8th, 2006 Posted by Grymwulf | Rant | no comments