In case you haven’t noticed, the blog is now hosted on the astrumfutura.com domain. I’ve added a set of HTTP headers on the quantum-star.com domain which should transparently redirect many of the old links to the QS blog to the correct location here.

Since the blog has moved, I’ll explain why. Back in December the blog fell offline when a series of bad PHP files were written into all the writeable directories. Since I was using Hostrocket, these are writeable only under a 777 chmod. It’s a pain in the ass, but unavoidable because of how Apache is set up for Hostrocket’s shared servers. Unfortunately, this keeps happening month after month regardless of changing passwords, updating version, etc.

Astrumfutura.com is on the other hand, hosted on Dreamhost. Dreamhost have this nifty thing going where Apache runs under the local domain user account. Result? Apache (and therefore PHP) need no special permissions to write to the server by default – which of course means no 777 permission anywhere. It has it’s own issue (PHP apps have default write permissions) but it avoids the pain in the ass world-write situation.

Anyways, enough of my moaning. Back to blogging!

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