I'm going to phase out Gallery, my old photo system.  It sucks, Flickr is so much better and easier to get stuff up on.  I've been meaning to do this for a bit, just work has been making me go to such horrible places like ASU and be subjected to countless beautiful women.  But having to spend what is basically an entire day on an airplane (leave at 8am there to the airport, get home at 6pm), you don't have too much access to the Internet.

So if you're keeping notes, this is the last PHP app that is running on Better Than Everyone.  Why am I doing this?  I've gotten hosting with the wonder company called Applied Innovations and will be migrating all my sites over there.  I'll have my own Virtual Private Server (FINALLY) and will be rocking out how to do this.  I just need to put everything over there and test it out.  Current way of doing stuff annoys me too much when I have people say "Clint, you're site is down" or "Clint, why can't I FTP in?".  I do have to figure out how to set up SFTP and a mail server now however.  Wonder if they already have one I can tap into.

The first site I'll officially port will be Peace Love Code since there are far fewer moving parts.

And best of all I'll finally have access to .Net 3.5 stuff so I can play with LINQ without my server yelling at me.  Currently I'm stuck at .Net 2.0 for my web host.

So in addition to my own stuff, I have my brother's stuff too that I have to figure out how to migrate.  That is all PHP and MySQL.  Could be a fun weekend project (or not).  I may do a "how to convert your PHP to .Net" series too for just this.

And yes, I know I could just have a PHP and MySQL instance for this up on the VPS, but I think that is a last resort.  There has to be a MySQL to SQL Server migration tool out there and converting the site shouldn't be "that" hard.  It may however just be a total slash and burn with the exception of the database and build from the ground up.  New UI, without a doubt new code base since the current version is more of a ASP style instead of an OO style.

Now, why else would I have a VPS?  I can test out other stuff like Ruby on Rails, Apache, .... without messing up my current site or server instance. 

Virtualization, It is god's gift to the nerds.