Sometimes, I’m asked to quote references for my tutorials and posts.  Here’s one example I received recently:

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Hi!  [..really enjoyed your site|liked your tutorial on..]  would you please
provide your reference for that? I really need the reference.
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When you write something from your own knowledge and expertise, you are not required to use references.

I have a college degree in Internetworking and multiple certifications from various vendors including Cisco, Sun and IBM.  I am a certified instructor who is paid to teach others what he knows. I have worked hands-on with the technologies on a daily basis for over 20 years. That’s what’s known as an expert, and more generally speaking, an authority.

As an expert and an authority, I am qualified to write original articles on subjects within my area of expertise without requiring references, or at least, not too many of them.

Besides, quoting/referencing myself would be silly.

–InetDaemon

This blog is powered by a CGI application called WordPress which I installed to my website from my Blackberry last week. This post was written from the road while stopped in rush hour traffic. Mobile computing meets cellular Internet and Web 2.0 to converge in a wonder of modern technology! Blogging in motion!

But seriously, don’t try this at home kids!  I’m what’s called an expert.

Convergence: where everything comes together.

Routing protocols converge when all routes on the network are known by all routers.  Convergence is also the term used to describe the unification of voice, video and data on a single network infrastructure.  Convergence in art describes what occurs at a vanishing point where everything seems to fade off into the distance.

Many of the projects I attempt bring together all the various aspects of my life.  This website is one of those projects and so is this blog.

InetDaemon.Com has moved from Gate.Com to BlueHost.com. Changing providers always entails a few glitches, but it appears that this has gone fairly seamlessly. I’m already getting hits at the new IP address.

Please bear with me while I work to resolve any issues related to transitioning to the new site.

One of the issues that you have when transferring a domain is that you have to set up new mail accounts. As soon as the new internal mail accounts are online, and mail is flowing, I’ll be able to receive, and respond, to your e-mails.

If you are reading this page, InetDaemon.Com has officially moved from Gate.com to Bluehost.com. If you have a Gate.Com or Hostsave.Com account, we highly recommend you move to another provider.

I created my account at BlueHost today, uploaded the files and made some quick configurations at BlueHost. Next, I changed my DNS where I registered my domain and voila’! InetDaemon.Com is up and running at the new hosting provider without a hitch (as far as I can tell). Now to deal with those pesky e-mail accounts everyone seems to think is so important.

Why We Moved

Put simply, Gate.Com’s MySQL configuration won’t support one copy of WordPress being accessed by one person. Since I’m a geek, I know how to access the configuration settings for MySQL directly. Gate uses a single MySQL database instance which is only configured to allow 1500 total connections across their entire customer base. Furthermore, their configuration allows abandoned sessions to remain active for 8 hours, further reducing the availability of the database.

These restrictions prevent applications such as WordPress and eCommerce applications from functioning.

A Seamless Move

The key to a mostly seamless move of your domain from one hosting provider to another is preparation.

You must set up your future home, verify it is operational, then change where your registrar’s DNS points. Many years ago, I registered the InetDaemon.Com name, and then found a hosting provider. Back then, hosting providers didn’t do Domain Name registration, so today, moving my domain is a snap.

Today’s hosting providers won’t let you pry your own domain out of their cold, dead hands without at least some dynamite and a steam shovel. That’s why you register your domain yourself with a registrar and then find a hosting provider. That way, all you have to do is change the DNS pointer at your registrar. Moving a domain from one registrar to another is a painful experience and makes for messy transitions, so when your web hosting provider IS your registrar, it gets messy.

Because I use a registrar that is separate from my hosting provider, it took less than two hours to do the complete move.

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