A New Face For An Old Friend

Friday, February 12th, 2010 @ 8:17 am

Perpetual Paradise has been around as a website for awhile now.  It was one of my first domains. Why does it look like a brand new site with this being the first “post”?  I will be happy to tell you why it looks like a new website without much content.  It looks like a new site because I had been using the CMS Zirkula and since the installed version needed an upgrade, an upgrade was applied as recommended which resulted in total failure.  Yes, yes, yes I did do full (complete) backups of both software and database… No, No, No, I didn’t feel like going through all the work of attempting to degrade the software which would leave in need of an upgrade.  If the upgrade failed the first time, why wouldn’t it fail again?

I have already tried a variety of other software packages, none of which impressed me for what I wanted. They were excellent programs doing what they were designed to do, they just didn’t do what I wanted.

I have used WordPress elsewhere and thought it was fairly decent.  No complicated administrative section as like what I experienced with Zirkula (what a pain in the butt).  So now I shall try running Perpetual Paradise with WordPress.

Yes, I lost all the old content.  Will I try and reclaim it?  I don’t know?  And I am not even sure if it is worth the effort.

Not sure which setting it was, but there was a setting I encountered during set-up where I allowed others to sign-up here.  I have noticed people were signing up right a way which I felt was kinda odd so I checked out the e-mail addresses of those accounts with few details filled in and found that all I checked seem to be comment spammer addresses. Hmm, I wonder if I can create a group for them and share that information with other websites? (And yes, it would be totally my style to try and do such a thing. Hell, check out the source code for this post, it alone has 50 hidden Project Honey Pot links.  I operate one web server just to piss-off script kiddies, every vulnerability they seek returns a 200 code and a 6MB file filled with NOs. I need to learn how to throttle back how fast the page is returned. 512 bytes/second would be a good speed. Any suggestions?)  I am aimlessly wandering around in this post so it is time to cut it short.

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