Our RV Adventures

Well, our walk this morning was rained out again. 52° and wet is not very conducive to a pleasant walk in the countryside. So I guess we’ll pick it back up at Lake Conroe on Monday. Hopefully in our next two weeks there, we’ll be able to bump our 1.5 miles a day up to 2 miles. But I guess it depends on if the weather holds.

Last night/this morning I got on the phone with Godaddy to move  the last of my web hosting accounts from Superb.net over to Godaddy. The means that they will now host all my domain names, websites, and blogs. And it will be nice to have everything in one place.

When I first started doing websites for clients back in 1997, GoDaddy had only gotten off the ground, and I don’t think I had even heard of them at the time. At that time there was only one place to register domain names and that was with Network Solutions. And there weren’t a lot of hosting companies either.

And most of the ones that were, were pretty expensive. But finally I found Superb.net, a company that was formed to support small business users. So I was able to bulk-buy 500 megabytes of host space where I could set up as many websites as I needed.

I started out with one hosting account, and eventually added a second one, where I hosted over 40 websites at the peak. But over the years, as more host companies came online, rates started dropping, and as they dropped I started moving more and more stuff off Superb and over to Godaddy.

But I kept the last two domains on Superb because they hosted a very busy online shopping site and was protected with an SSL certificate to allow safe credit card  processing. But recently I bit the bullet and started moving the last of it over.

And last night was the last of the last. All that was left was one domain, which was only being used for as an email forwarding address site. So I wanted to get things moved over to Godaddy quickly to be sure no emails were lost. The domain name itself was already hosted at Godaddy so it was just a matter of changing out the DNS addresses to move it over.

Now normally when you do this, it can take from minutes to hours to days for the switch to be actually be made. This can be a problem here, because until the switchover is made, I can’t set up the email forwarding addresses, so emails can be lost. But this time Godaddy surprised even me. It literally took seconds.

I made the DNS changes, clicked SAVE, and then opened a new tab, typed in the URL, pressed RETURN, and the changeover was complete. Literally seconds.

Well done, Godaddy!

We went over to Nick and Terry’s about 1pm for some talk, and a piece of Terry’s Pecan Pie. Both really good, especially the pie. After a while, we split up, with plan to all head out about 4:15pm.

We were driving back into Katy to once again have dinner at Little V’s Vietnamese Bistro. Of course we were just here last night, but tonight is Nick and Terry’s 18tth Anniversary, and this is where they wanted to come back to. And it’s not like Jan and I had a problem with that either.

And neither did Brandi, Lowell, and Landon, either. And Lowell’s sister, Sherry joined us too.

After a great meal, and a great time, we said our goodbyes. But before heading home, we made a stop at a nearby Lowe’s so Nick and Terry could pick up a new drinking water faucet.

We finally got home about 8:45 after a very nice last day here at Colorado River. Tomorrow we leave for Lake Conroe and Nick and Terry leave for Tuscaloosa, AL, on their way to Florida for the winter. Unfortunately the next time we’ll all see each other is sometime in June down in Florida, before we all start heading north for the Escapade in Vermont in July.

Thought for the Day:

Laws were most numerous when the state was most corrupt. — Tacitus, Roman Senator, 100 A.D.

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