Ship it! - Pt. 3
Well; on the plus side, I have finally found the perfect CMS for my site and those of my clients. After attempting to learn Ruby, giving up and switching to php, then adding on top of that SQlite and slowly (oh so very slowly) making some headway, I stumbled across phpsqlitecms. As the name implies, this very lightweight system is based off of php 5 and runs on almost every hosting plan out there. This was exactly what I wanted.
Unfortunately, the documentation really left a lot to be desired. Not to put too fine a point to it, but there really was none. From the site, it appeared that hardly anybody beside the original author tried to actually use it. I decided to once again try and help promote an open source project, and as before, I failed. Both the original author as well as a guy who suggested I join him in doing a fork ultimately rejected what I had to offer. To spite them, my site uses the CMS in a way it was not intended for but which is a lot easier to set up than the recommended way. Watch for a tutorial on this channel. And maybe, just maybe I will get back around to promoting either version of the CMS or creating my own fork.
At the same time, I slowly transitioned hosts. When I wondered why my .htaccess file wasn't working after moving to Host Europe, I suspected something was wrong with the hosting. There was; the plan. See, Host Europe explained to me that htaccess wasn't available on the plan I had chosen and that I could only get it with a plan that was 10 sizes too large instead of the one that I had now, which was 5 sizes too large. They wouldn't budge, no matter how much I complained. It was in the feature list anyway. Now, seriously, who would expect a plan with a bunch of SQL databases, tons of space and all the bells and whistles to not have htaccess support? Not me, that's for sure. So one, I was negatively surprised by this development but not able to do much about it. Two, Host Europe would have been able to do something about that, but decided not to. So here I am, hosted with Hetzner.
While all this was under way, my article output slowed to a trickle; not because I actually wrote less, but because I published a lot less, thinking it could wait until the new site was up. Lesson learned there. Just because it would add a little hassle sometime down the line shouldn't determine whether I keep my publishing schedule.
The site finally has a comment section, too, so please make good use of it. Thank you!
Unfortunately, the documentation really left a lot to be desired. Not to put too fine a point to it, but there really was none. From the site, it appeared that hardly anybody beside the original author tried to actually use it. I decided to once again try and help promote an open source project, and as before, I failed. Both the original author as well as a guy who suggested I join him in doing a fork ultimately rejected what I had to offer. To spite them, my site uses the CMS in a way it was not intended for but which is a lot easier to set up than the recommended way. Watch for a tutorial on this channel. And maybe, just maybe I will get back around to promoting either version of the CMS or creating my own fork.
At the same time, I slowly transitioned hosts. When I wondered why my .htaccess file wasn't working after moving to Host Europe, I suspected something was wrong with the hosting. There was; the plan. See, Host Europe explained to me that htaccess wasn't available on the plan I had chosen and that I could only get it with a plan that was 10 sizes too large instead of the one that I had now, which was 5 sizes too large. They wouldn't budge, no matter how much I complained. It was in the feature list anyway. Now, seriously, who would expect a plan with a bunch of SQL databases, tons of space and all the bells and whistles to not have htaccess support? Not me, that's for sure. So one, I was negatively surprised by this development but not able to do much about it. Two, Host Europe would have been able to do something about that, but decided not to. So here I am, hosted with Hetzner.
While all this was under way, my article output slowed to a trickle; not because I actually wrote less, but because I published a lot less, thinking it could wait until the new site was up. Lesson learned there. Just because it would add a little hassle sometime down the line shouldn't determine whether I keep my publishing schedule.
The site finally has a comment section, too, so please make good use of it. Thank you!
Berthold Barth
Berthold is a design student in southern Germany. When he is not at school or his day job, he participates in the design community and works on side projects. His profound knowledge of technology, his experience both as an employee in several IT-related jobs as well in the company he ran until 2008 and the curiosity of a 3-year-old drive him to always give 100%. -> hire me!
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