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Since WordPress recently let me know that it no longer feels really comfortable on my server and that individual apps have been complaining for a long time, I once again dealt with my "managed server" in this regard and had to deal with the service as a result from IONOS.
We found out that this weblog and its predecessors have been at home at 2002&1 since 1, although they were previously running at Schlund und Partner without any major problems. But that doesn't help me much either — you can't rest on your laurels, you have to earn them anew every day. And nostalgia doesn't help anyone anymore, at least not for me in this case.
And so yesterday I first deleted databases that I could no longer allocate, let alone read at all; even compatibility with previous versions has its limits.
Now I only have the databases on the server, which I can also link to one or the other website. Unfortunately, none of them are officially compatible with the content management systems I use — but these systems are probably so nostalgic that the whole thing still works halfway.
And so it is important that I set up new databases as soon as possible — better yesterday than tomorrow — and transfer the content from the old to the new. Since my expertise in this regard dates back to the 1970s to 1990s, this should be a very exciting matter.
Thankfully it has Detlef Stern agreed to help me — ancient databases have their own charm, at least for some of us.
In the event that this weblog or other websites I look after are suddenly gone in the near future, it may be because the data transfer didn't work properly.
But servers that have been outsourced to server parks for more than 20 years now make me a little nostalgic. I carried my first server, a souped-up PC, around with me since my studies and had to realize that the whole thing only makes sense if you have a good acoustic coupler and an even better telephone line.
In any case, servers don't like to constantly move from one apartment to the next. And so a solution had to be found before an impending move, and I found this at Schlund und Partner, who at that time still offered server services that I could still afford.
