WebPipe Experience
Well... I finally got all the information I needed from WebPipe (and Leslie) to get their web site up and running on the production host. What a wonderful group of folks! They have top-notch servers, darn good response time and the price is just too good to be true. With the database information I built the database and set the constants on the server-side PHP scripts to the proper values and Voila! it worked like a charm.
Well... I did notice a few style problems that were easy enough to fix, and I finally did a proper job of making sure all the references to North Hollow Farm were in the singular, but that's something I should have done a long time ago. Better now than wait for this to go live and have to worry about fixing them while it's live.
More good news is that the site seems to work fine with the counter from SoVer.net - which was a concern for me. I'm sure that WebPipe would have something to handle the page hits, but it's nice that we don't have to hassle with that for the time being. Lucky break we cought on that one.
I also mailed off to someone who sells SGI hardware a question I have about the maximum RAM I can fit into my Indigo2. I have read conflicting reports, and I wanted to get the straight story from a good supplier. SGI says the max is 384MB, while I've read it can go to 640MB. If this is the case, then I can certainly see getting a memory upgrade from 256MB to 640MB to make things a lot faster. Right now, Netscape and CVS are a lot slower than I want, and I'm looking for something to give them a boost.
Then again... it's not going to be anything like the Blackbird x4 I get in a few weeks...
I started the process of moving naturalmeat.com from Cydian to WebPipe by going to Network Solutions (their registrar) and starting the move. I changed the technical contact to Leslie and then told her what to do with the email Network Solutions would be sending her. So it's on the way!
Leslie has checked on the web site, and likes it, so it looks like we're ready to go. Once the domain is changed, I'll go in to the constants and put naturalmeat.com in place of the WebPipe tag, but that's only cosmetic. The WebPipe site is up and ready to go, and I've done 98% of the work myself. No need to worry about this anymore... I can certainly handle it.