I recently transferred my site to a new host and so far everything has gone smoothly. My hosting plan with Bluehost was about to expire and as I wasn’t particularly impressed with their shared hosting performance it was time to look into other options. I had read some pretty good things about Siteground and they were also running a sale for Halloween. So far I am very impressed, the site is a lot faster now (having a data center in Europe probably helps) and their online support has been excellent. They are certainly bit pricier than many other shared hosting providers, but for this level of service I’m happy to pay a small premium.

I am also well aware that I haven’t posted any updates for over a year. This is a good time to get that fixed too. I have quite a few dive trip reports half written and some other pretty big stories too. Between getting married and moving back to Europe things have been quite busy over the last 12 months!

The site was almost completely wiped out a few days ago, likely due to a hostile attack. Databases were unaffected and I was able to restore almost all the other content from the latest weekly backup. However, I will need to upload some photo galleries (Wilsons Prom and New Zealand trip) again.

I have updated all WordPress components to their latest versions and temporarily disabled some other parts of the site to ensure there are no exploits on the site. I should have everything back up and running in a few more days.

The website has been transferred to a new hosting company. This resulted in a downtime of few days, sorry for the inconvenience. While in general the process went reasonably smoothly, there are currently some dead links and some parts of the site are not functioning properly. I’ll be fixing any issues over the next few days.

Once everything is working again I’ll be posting some content updates as well. I have a rather large backlog of photos from a couple of trips in November.

Things have been little quiet lately with settling down in a new place in Melbourne and waiting for my arm to heal. But there’s still stuff happening in the background.

First of all I have been working on some site updates. I finally got around to doing proper troubleshooting with the broken Gallery installation and it appears that the problems are with my web host after all. A clean install didn’t fix the issue, so I am at the moment stuck waiting for the hosting company to get their act together and find out what in their configuration is causing the problem. I have also been trying out some other web galleries to keep my options open. I have found some really nice galleries but none so far that support the full feature set I require.

I have also been working on integrating my Online Divelog with the WordPress blog. Things are progressing nicely and I already have most of the building blocks in place. In a few weeks I should have the implementation ready for public use, it’s already looking quite nice so stay tuned!

And finally, my cast should finally come off on Friday after six weeks of general annoyance. It will be really nice to have my arm free again!

The latest WordPress update caused some problems with the site layout (missing menu bar etc.), these issues should now be fixed.