{"id":24271,"date":"2018-06-22T00:02:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T04:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=24271"},"modified":"2018-06-21T23:28:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T03:28:56","slug":"preparing-for-10-years-by-upgrading-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2018\/06\/22\/preparing-for-10-years-by-upgrading-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for 10 Years by Upgrading Servers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a little more than a week, The Mookse and the Gripes will turn ten! I posted my first review — of Salman Rushdie’s\u00a0Midnight’s Children<\/em> — on July 1, 2008. I don’t actually believe it’s almost been ten years, so I still don’t know what I’ll do to celebrate.<\/p>\n

However, it’s not quite time to celebrate in any case. Rather, in preparation for the next ten years I’m going to be upgrading my hosting service, transitioning from a shared server to a VPS. Do you know what that means? I only slightly do, but I’m assured it will speed up the site, and I think that’s a good thing. Over the past year in particular I’ve noticed it takes a bit longer to load than I’d like. I can imagine some of you feel the same way. And some out there will not even read this because they’ll have already given up on this page loading! I don’t like frustrating readers!<\/p>\n

I’ve already paid for the upgrade and have scheduled it to begin tonight. I don’t know how long it will take, but I’ve read anywhere from a few hours to a day.<\/p>\n

During that time, The Mookse and the Gripes will be down. I hope after however long it takes all will be well! I’d sure hate to lose everything right on the even of the ten year anniversary!<\/p>\n

I want to thank my supporters on Patreon. This upgrade doubles my costs per month, and I wouldn’t have been able to do it without support. If you’re not a Patreon, I invite you to check it out and see if you’re interested. Everything helps!\u00a0See here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m hoping for another great ten years, so before the celebration it’s time to upgrade the server. This post is to warn of what I hope will be a tiny bit of downtime over the coming weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"none","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"[]","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[798],"tags":[],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-24271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Mookse-Construction-Featured-Image.jpg?fit=700%2C401&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-6jt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24273,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24271\/revisions\/24273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24271"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}