Once Again Back It’s The Incredible…

It has been a rough and bumpy week here at KevinNottingham.com. Why does it seem that I’ve made a post like this on more than one occassion in the past few months? Well, after a long dispute with our newest web host, we have successfully transferred the site to a new host. After all the problems with the last 3 hosts, I reached out to my fellow bloggers to ask who everyone else was using.  The winner, after careful consideration, turned out to be Dreamhost.

The transfer was a bumpy one and if you were reading my Twitter last night, you know about my frustration. My old host was trying to extort me for $75 in extra bandwidth charges while holding the site’s images hostage. Luckily, I was able to backdoor into their servers and recover most of them. So you may see a few broken images on the site, until I replace the missing ones. While moving the site, I was also able to upgrade some components and fix/adjust some scripts behind the scenes.

As far as the current state of the web site, Dreamhost currently has us on a shared server until our dedicated server is ready. So right now, the site may seem a little slow and could time out on occasion until we get moved over to a dedicated server. Dreamhost estimates this to be about 2-3 days.

I want to thank everyone for the support and kind words expressed to me, either through Twitter, email, or over the phone. Thanks to all the readers who continue to show their appreciation and the ones who gave technical advice.. Thanks to the few who actually donated money to help with some of the new costs. A special thanks to DJ Vlad and Gooch, who both gave pep talks when I was down and wondered if all this was worth it to continue.

We will immediately get some new content on the site, as my email is backed up with posting requests. To those who sent stuff to post, please understand that I will not be able to get everything online as new stuff comes in all the time. Look out for our Michael Jackson Beat It Tribute Tape to drop this weekend, an exclusive mixtape from M. Will that we are hosting, and prepare yourself for our very special 11 Days of Jay starting September 1, as we count down the days to the release of The Blueprint 3.