iMurphy

So, you may note some differences in the site. This is because I was hacked!!! Some Lithuanian jerk hacked my Movable Type blog and installed all kinds of PHP scripts that were sending out spam and phishing people. His email address is garliavos@mafija.lt . I managed to delete everything, but was my host ever mad. I was furious! He took advantage of the fact that MT’s archives have to be world writable for the software to work. So, I have changed to Word Press, and need to learn the particulars all over again.

THIS POST WILL REMAIN ON TOP UNTIL I FIX THE SITE!

    OK, I must preface this entire rant by saying that it was all my fault, and all stemmed from my inability to read. Having thus disclaimed, let me proceed with my tale of woe.

A few months back, when I took a renewed interest in having this website be hosted somewhere, I went looking for a new host site. I found the fantastically cheap e-Host-One dot com and their affordable $2.95 a month plan. Overjoyed, I jumped onboard and began recreating my slice of the internet. There was a one dollar plan, but that looked too limiting for my storage needs, database plans and bandwidth expectations. Within a few hours after purchase, I promptly forget which plan I had bought.

Now this wonderful web-space I’ve bought has a brilliant web-interface called cPanel. This beautiful web-application has on one’s sidebar a constant reminder of how much storage space one is using, the size and number of mySQL databases onboard, as well has the bandwidth consumed to date. Somehow, my account was listed on this page (but not actually so) as the One Dollar Plan.

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July had started off as a good month for me, in regards to the internet. I got PHPGedView up and running and a WordPress blog starting to look right. I begin ruminating about a complicated CMS addition to my pages when I see I am using my one and only mySQL database for my blog and that my bandwidth is almost totally consumed. I freak out, at first just taking PHPGedView offline, but quickly deleting it all together, desperate to save space. I spent hours trying to find a blog software that doesn’t use mySQL (thanks to this table), and subsequently deleting my new blog after exporting it to PDF. After all that, I started thinking again.

An urgent ticket on the support forum leads to a quick response from e-Host-One: the cPanel was displaying the wrong information on my account. It was promptly fixed. Instantly, I way under my bandwidth, at ten percent of my storage capacity and using zero of my five mySQL databases. Now I have vented. Now my stupidity is public. Now I go cry.

My genealogy files are about as far-back reaching as they’re going to get, at least for a while. I think I’m moving on in life. I also updated my file on rootsweb dot com. I imagine in the future I will be going back and make the site submittable to the Mormons, and adding all kinds of fun details, but this is good for now. I will call grandma this week (hopefully) and see what I can glean from her. There is a glaring mystery about Obedia Baker and who fathered her children! I plan on finding out the town she was from before Nichols, SC and finding the Ford family from that town. That should make the rest pretty easy. TTFN!

Although Ambassador Kosh didn\’t say that line until the end of season one of Babylon 5, this marks the start of our first ever blog! There are going to be many topics covered here, but for now this is just a discussion about having a discussion. I hope to convince Jessica (my wife) to post here regularly too, but we’ll just have to wait and see.