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Old host is having issues with cPanel and Apache. cPanel is removing the entry for my domain some how from the httpd.conf file again and again. So, I moved (just the blog - karteek.selfdabba.com) to the new host.

I’m thinking about maintaining a mirror at http://karteek.mondayphobia.com which will reside on the old host. Need to take a look at xmlrpc of wordpress to do that. Guys, if you know any plugins that do mirroring, let me know before I start dirtying my hands with the code

I’ve spent another Satyam Cinemas ticket for hosting, this time, to a host which got older-but-stable versions of softwares. I’ve migrated database to this new one as well.

Guess what, this time, I’m trying yet-another-new-thing. Now, I’ve two hosting packages on two different hosts (didn’t waste much money, total cost is three tickets at Satyam Cinemas). My DNS management is done for free by ZoneEdit and it supports Round-robin DNS (A technique that enables a domain to be hosted on multiple servers, and to have the load balanced between them) So, I configured both servers to have my blog and one of the will be pointed by ZoneEdit’s DNS Servers when you request.

Reasons for this action

• I’ve no clue why I did this
• Let me see if I get to learn something new as I got so many new doubts right now while doing it
• First host is bad, I don’t know about second host. Atleast one of them will up to serve the blog

I’ve no clue for following questions

• How am I going to synchronize posts at both the servers ?
• Will DNS server point you to the second server automatically when the first server is down ?
• What exactly will be happening in the background at DNS server and my browser when I request a page ?

I’m sure that I’ll get more doubts and I’m more sure that I’m going to find answers for these questions. If you’ve answers for my questions, please let me know, otherwise, I will let you guys know when I find solutions

No need to explain, I found a great wordpress theme named iTheme from N Design Studio (Check footer for more details). Now, you are looking at it. I modified a bit of code and CSS as well. Created a sitemap XML, which is at its default location.

By the way, I inspired a friend of mine to blog today !!! He read my blog and found that there is no need for “substance” to blog and one can blog ANY crap. That’s all for now. Any comments on the looks ?

Guess, you’ve seen my old blog and came here. Updating what happend here on this blog … I took certain care on the following items

• Theme isn’t black anymore, though I can’t guarantee that it would be same.
• Well, no-more-blogger-service. I’m sure that I’m not going back to blogger. One Google service abandoned.
• All posts and comments are migrated to this blog, so if you want to read any old posts, you need not go back to that dark page. All you would need to do is update your bookmarks or subscriptions in your feed readers.
• Added some ajax-plugins for wordpress to make it easy browsing archives. Looking forward to make it better.

There are certain things going on in the back end. Will update you guys about them very soon. PS: Thanks a lot to Sunil Biswal for suggesting the domain name.