On December 18, 2019, my Internet web hosting provider announced they are shutting down in February 2020. I am now in process of relocating my 5 web sites to a new web host (and once this is done, a 6th site located elsewhere will also be relocated).

This post you are reading right now is on the new web host, however, the final appearance of this page and some other key items still need to be updated. These final fixes will occur over the next week or so. For example, this web site is presently using a self signed SSL certificate and access (https) results in a security alert that the SSL connection cannot be verified, or in some browsers, images are missing or the page formats incorrectly. This will be fixed, in due course.

Unfortunately, the instructions I had for migrating a WordPress web site to another server were incorrect and only “sort of worked”. These incorrect instructions appear widely on the Internet, unfortunately. After migrating 3 of my 5 web sites, I discovered the instructions did not lead to a fully functioning web site. Consequently, this process has become more complex and time consuming than expected.

I ended up inventing my own migration strategy however it may require that I temporarily run a brief function on the old web server. To do that, I may need to temporarily re-assign the DNS to point back at the old web host server, and then reset it back to this one. That will occur sometime during the coming week (but I have an idea that might avoid this step altogether – we will see!). As a result, the appearance of this web page will be going back and forth during the coming week or so and will not be finalized for another week.

The following web sites are affected and will be in a state of transition during the migration over the coming week.

Coldstreams