Group 42

Everything is back! Also upgraded to the latest Drupal security release.

I have a set of backup/restore shell scripts for making command line backups of the database and file system easy. One command and less than 60 seconds later my site is backed up or restored. It makes site moves and safety backups for upgrades extremely easy. I contributed them to Drupal project there: Backup and restore using bash shell scripts.

I'm still getting familiar with the DreamHost control panel, but so far I'm liking it better than cPanel. It's definitely nice having control over the directory a website is created in.

Cross fingers, or hold thumbs as they say in South Africa, hopefully the fire fighting is over. I'm looking forward to focusing on content, again.

Disaster stuck and my web host went off the air Sunday morning! Even more frustrating, I can

Arrrr, thar be comments on deck! (Sorry, getting in practice for Talk Like a Pirate Day).

Thanks to the anti-spam power of Akismet and the coding prowess of Markus Petrux at phpMiX.org I feel comfortable enabling comments.

For the curious, installation of the Akismet Drupal module was textbook. There was an operational bump related to a firewall configuration but I a talk with my host and it was easily resolved.

Comment away or lurk, now you have a choice.