Sorry for the downtime there… if you’re reading this, that means my new DNS numbers have propagated to your network and you’re viewing my site on the speedy new USA server.  U.S.A.!!  U.S.A.!!!  I can’t see it over here yet.  Wish it would hurry up but it hasn’t even been 12 hours yet, gotta give it a little more time.

I ended up having to ask my webhost to move the MySQL db for me — the export went fine, but it was 8.5 megs, too damn big to restore to the new server via http. So they had to do it for me from the command line, since I don’t have shell access and probably would’ve screwed it up anyway.  Looks great now… not a single thing was lost, that I can tell.  Of course that’s how it should be, but I guess I’m more used to just importing blog-posts and not whole dbs with templates and MEMBER-LISTS and all that other stuff.

Soon as I saw everything looked good, I high-tailed it over to GoDaddy to update the nameservers.  Then I shut down the old site because I didn’t want anybody posting comments or trying to join, since I’d already migrated the db.  It was just easier that way, I only had to change one setting. Also I’m looking forward to the big dramatic effect of seeing the site finally go live after hitting "refresh" a million times.  I’m such a geek… Rob J. said I was the first person he’s met that gets all excited about a DNS entry propagating.  :-)