Good luck. Having just changed my site and not having a clue I definitely "feel" for you.

Yes, you had me fooled. I look forward to the weird and funky things! Thanks for a great read every day!!

Your post alone was worth a few laughs! I hope everything goes smoothly and quickly for ya.
~Holly
(Let me know if you need help :) )

Ruh-Roh!

There is always risk when shaping the battlespace ...

I'll just save the snerks up, for now... :)

On a slightly more serious note; I suggest y'all contact your web provider to see if they offer a site backup utility.

For illustration, I use Verve to host thegantry.net, and when I log on to do website maintainence one of the items I can click on "Backup" under the "Site Management" menu.

There are all sorts of geeky details, but the simplest way to go (especially if you have broadband) is just let the program execute a full backup, then wait for the email to let you know it's done. Then you download (I use WinSCP) it directly from your website, although I don't doubt one may download the file through the menu-based utilities offered by the site provider.

This sounds more complicated than it is. Basically, it's:
-click on "backup"
-wait for the email
-download the .tar.gz file (kinda like a .zip file)
-Bob's yer uncle!

If you ever have any heinous crash, you can then use that .tar.gz file to perform a restore. Again, this assumes broadband. I'd hate to try it under dailup!

In fact, while I was typing this comment I was also (remotely) executing a backup of my website. The backupfile was about 16 megs, and I downloaded it in about a minute and a half.

I love broadband... {BSEG}

Even if you have dialup, you can start the download, go to bed, and check it in the morning. It's always nice to have a backup of your website on hand, just in case.

"Press that button." "..." "NOO!! NOT *THAT* ONE!!"

Good thing you have kids to help you when you really get in a computer jam. That is what we had them for, isn't it?

May the force be with you!!!
I know with you two valiant bloggers that it will be wonderful, I am eagerly awaiting the final product,
Love
Patti

Load time has already improved dramatically. I wonder if the "ping too fast" error on trackbacks is related to the pinging software?

I got that error yesterday trying to trackback to an open post and I use Haloscan. I will try it again with your next open post.

Saw this about configuring trackbacks in MT, not sure if this would affect your issues...

"The second problem was that when I sent a load of TrackBacks from one weblog to another only the first few worked. The rest generated “403 Throttled” errors in the Activity Log. I tried messing with ThrottleSeconds in mt.cfg to no avail. It turns out there are a couple of undocumented configuration settings, as Phil Ringnalda describes:

There are two undocumented mt.cfg directives now, OneHourMaxPings and OneDayMaxPings — if you don’t set those yourself, they should be defaulting to 10 and 50. Did you send five pings before those last five when it crapped out, within the same hour? That would run you afoul of OneHourMaxPings.

ThrottleSeconds is rather odd at affecting the Trackback throttle: it does nothing to the one hour throttle, but for no particular reason the one day throttle is actually ThrottleSeconds*4000-1, so that if you set ThrottleSeconds to 0, you allow yourself OneDayMaxPings every second (though usually you would expect OneHour to trigger before that).

Upping OneHourMaxPings does the job, and MT 3 seems more capable of sending a large number of pings from an entry than previous versions ever were."

http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2004/09/15/movable_type_3_p.php