Well life is going going going, money is still tight, but such is the game I suppose, but thus I have been working on stage 2 of things with FH website for starters, I haven’t migrated the website and such over, but for starters the new customer portal which now puts together billing, support, and knowledge base information, so no more multi-site logins - and while I loved the software that powered each, the catch was price, in the end, $100+ in monthly fees for billing & support systems… but moving forward I am very happy with the new system, it’s got some good features that customers have asked for, and no major code modifications have been needed, so major plus.
So the plan for this week I want to migrate more folks over, PayPal people are the starting folk - I am doing it by hand, while there is a “Importer” I am using this opportunity to split up things a bit, but also gives me a chance to update folks information that have on file, as on the previous billing system it was a bit of a pain, but also I want to use this time to get the current KB entries (even though limited) moved over, and on top of that also get a few videos finalized for setting up various OS & Softwares for using services - I have a few done, mainly just video, I do want to setup some Audio voice overs in time.
But the beat goes on, and enjoy The Office Season 3 right now here at 2:30am - trying to decide to wrap it up and head to bed, or keep working thru the night and make some more progress on things…. time will tell.
Anywhoo - have a good week folks, might not be a active posting week, but that too time will tell. Night
Well as it stands, still on the cell for internet access, kind of figured I would be and that the whole “by midnight” bit wouldn’t pan out, I mean come on, lol - but all in all, today was good, got some good headway on my work area, got the APC UPS in place, so now my Mac, Linux, Modem, and Router all are on battery backup if the power goes out, just need to get the APC on the Mac so that it can know when it should shut it self off based upon it’s power levels.
But got some good thinking in today, thanks to Jon who sent in a reply to my hosting needs question, if you want do send it to me via email, that works too - but gave me some ideas his email alone of making some simple options for hosting - but even more so, I am going to try and re-vamp costs again, as usual when I try to get my budget up, or on track, it gets horribly knocked off, so right now the budget is tight, so I think after today of having no cable, no internet, it’s time to re-vamp my ever-growing cable bill back to either basic cable again (non-digital) and also for a few months, stop BlockBuster online as the local store is not easy to get to due to road work.
So lost to work on, and I am excited about Crazy October this next month, going to bring it back, and setup some PHP magic to truly setup random deals, I am going to add in a feature to limit the random deal to 1 deal per IP per day, so folks can’t simply refresh till they find the deal they want lol - but all in all I think it’ll sell some accounts, plus I want to do a big drive towards a lump of cash, try to get some cash in pocket to do some re-vamp of servers, so 2k-4k in liquid cash to do some big upgrades/changes across the board.
Anywhoo - I think I may give up here soon and crash out, coming up on Midnight, having missed the premiere of House, and the new episode of Eureka, nothing left to be awake for lol - so I may turn in, or maybe go soak in the bathtub for a while and see if I can get my back to stop hurting. Have a good Fake Friday folks!
