So if you saw my last post on what was going on with the site, you know about panels. In essence, it’s the management software behind creating a website.
And boy, oh boy, was it giving me problems!
In the end, I replaced it entirely. So those of you who have websites or are familiar with WHM/CPanel, an expensive little piece of s**t, you know what I’m talking about? It’s got issues and every night it was doing… something.
I think the scheduled task was the “Eff Up the Entire Website Nightly” job.
So it’s gone. I found an opensource free replacement that, while it doesn’t have nearly the options CPanel has, has exactly what we need to run Last Movie Outpost. It’s been fine ever since.
I know it’s been frustrating. From an old techie like me, having something make zero sense and keep breaking even though I kept removing possibility after possibility, was really beating me down.
I came close to throwing in the towel. The CPanel was the only thing left that was the same across two hosts and different Linux OS’s and a bunch of other stuff.
I’m beginning to wonder if past issues we had with the site were related to this? CPanel seems to be the de facto utility used on web hosting servers, whether you have your own server (we do) or shared services (how we started in the beginning.) Like Windows, IOS, Android, and various other “default” software, I think it all gets too bloated for its own good.
So we’ll see, but we’ve had a couple of weeks of things working solidly. In fact, performance has never been better.
There’s more to come. I’m finally doing my Star Trek reviews so look for them to start coming in August. Stark is still an article machine. Boba Phil and Wrenage continue their contributions.
I’d like to thank Boba Phil for his work on redesigning the site. Also RachelsBack for his attempting to help us with his knowledge, it was very much appreciated. I would also like to thank all of you for your patience.
Let’s make LMO the best movie and streaming news and reviews website on the intertubes!