Rant of the Year
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I was developing a small WordPress site for a client, and while looking for free hosting, just for staging, I found an outfit called CloudAccess.net[^] that offered free hosting of a WP site under certain very unclear conditions. But very easy, just click a button and WP is set up for you. Great, I built and staged the site on Cloud Access, and did a file and DB backup to move the site to my prod ISP. Wednesday I took it live on my local ISP and all seemed fine. Today I found the site logo missing, and on inspect element I found the URL for the logo was an absolute URL rooted at Cloud Access. Then I tried an admin login, only to get a bad password error. On closer inspection I now find that every single URL I have tried to use on our local, prod WP site is also an absolute URL rooted at Cloud Access. I now have to basically spend several hours tonight rebuilding the local site from scratch and just copying the content over from Cloud Access.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
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I was developing a small WordPress site for a client, and while looking for free hosting, just for staging, I found an outfit called CloudAccess.net[^] that offered free hosting of a WP site under certain very unclear conditions. But very easy, just click a button and WP is set up for you. Great, I built and staged the site on Cloud Access, and did a file and DB backup to move the site to my prod ISP. Wednesday I took it live on my local ISP and all seemed fine. Today I found the site logo missing, and on inspect element I found the URL for the logo was an absolute URL rooted at Cloud Access. Then I tried an admin login, only to get a bad password error. On closer inspection I now find that every single URL I have tried to use on our local, prod WP site is also an absolute URL rooted at Cloud Access. I now have to basically spend several hours tonight rebuilding the local site from scratch and just copying the content over from Cloud Access.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
You don't need hosting to develop Wordpress sites. I normally use [Free Portable Webserver (USBWebserver) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2FT\_MehdQ4) - With that you can run a wordpress site with MySql database access locally on your development machine - basically without internet connection at all. Extremely easy to work with. It even runs from a USB stick if you should want that. I highly recommend it! Best invention since sliced bread (and bacon) :thumbsup: I even have a USB stick with a portable USBWebServer instance and a standard Wordpress installation with the most used plugins. So whenever I need to develop a new site, I just update Wordpress to the latest version, copy it - and Presto! I'm up and running.
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onllokers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain -
I was developing a small WordPress site for a client, and while looking for free hosting, just for staging, I found an outfit called CloudAccess.net[^] that offered free hosting of a WP site under certain very unclear conditions. But very easy, just click a button and WP is set up for you. Great, I built and staged the site on Cloud Access, and did a file and DB backup to move the site to my prod ISP. Wednesday I took it live on my local ISP and all seemed fine. Today I found the site logo missing, and on inspect element I found the URL for the logo was an absolute URL rooted at Cloud Access. Then I tried an admin login, only to get a bad password error. On closer inspection I now find that every single URL I have tried to use on our local, prod WP site is also an absolute URL rooted at Cloud Access. I now have to basically spend several hours tonight rebuilding the local site from scratch and just copying the content over from Cloud Access.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
You get what you pay for.
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I was developing a small WordPress site for a client, and while looking for free hosting, just for staging, I found an outfit called CloudAccess.net[^] that offered free hosting of a WP site under certain very unclear conditions. But very easy, just click a button and WP is set up for you. Great, I built and staged the site on Cloud Access, and did a file and DB backup to move the site to my prod ISP. Wednesday I took it live on my local ISP and all seemed fine. Today I found the site logo missing, and on inspect element I found the URL for the logo was an absolute URL rooted at Cloud Access. Then I tried an admin login, only to get a bad password error. On closer inspection I now find that every single URL I have tried to use on our local, prod WP site is also an absolute URL rooted at Cloud Access. I now have to basically spend several hours tonight rebuilding the local site from scratch and just copying the content over from Cloud Access.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
Rant of the Year in January, you are quite optimistic for the rest of this year.
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Rant of the Year in January, you are quite optimistic for the rest of this year.
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I was developing a small WordPress site for a client, and while looking for free hosting, just for staging, I found an outfit called CloudAccess.net[^] that offered free hosting of a WP site under certain very unclear conditions. But very easy, just click a button and WP is set up for you. Great, I built and staged the site on Cloud Access, and did a file and DB backup to move the site to my prod ISP. Wednesday I took it live on my local ISP and all seemed fine. Today I found the site logo missing, and on inspect element I found the URL for the logo was an absolute URL rooted at Cloud Access. Then I tried an admin login, only to get a bad password error. On closer inspection I now find that every single URL I have tried to use on our local, prod WP site is also an absolute URL rooted at Cloud Access. I now have to basically spend several hours tonight rebuilding the local site from scratch and just copying the content over from Cloud Access.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
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You don't need hosting to develop Wordpress sites. I normally use [Free Portable Webserver (USBWebserver) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2FT\_MehdQ4) - With that you can run a wordpress site with MySql database access locally on your development machine - basically without internet connection at all. Extremely easy to work with. It even runs from a USB stick if you should want that. I highly recommend it! Best invention since sliced bread (and bacon) :thumbsup: I even have a USB stick with a portable USBWebServer instance and a standard Wordpress installation with the most used plugins. So whenever I need to develop a new site, I just update Wordpress to the latest version, copy it - and Presto! I'm up and running.
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onllokers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark TwainSo how does my client that is some 400 km away access and review the site? Otherwise all I do is switch on Apache and MySql and develop away, but then I'd be sending my client several screenshots several times a day and playing email tennis.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
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You get what you pay for.
Yeah, well, the client has dragged a 2 day project on for 3 months, and without the income from the project, I can't afford paid hosting at the moment.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley
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Rant of the Year in January, you are quite optimistic for the rest of this year.
Please read that as Rant of the Year (so far)
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself." —Aleister Crowley