The good people who host the skuds.org domain and it’s contents recently migrated everything to new servers. Everything looks OK now, but it was not without incident.

The main thing is that this site suddenly showed up as being suspended, which turned out to be because I had not updated DNS details to point at the new nameservers. This was a bit of a surprise because in all the various emails with obscure details about the changes there was no mention of nameservers at all.

Another thing was that I lost access to my skuds.co.uk emails from Gmail. I changed the settings to the new ones but I was still not receiving anything in that mailbox. While its nice to get a break from the daily tsunami of marketing and updates from Quora, LinkedIn and Amazon it still needed fixing. I think it might be OK now but I’m keeping an eye on it.

All of this is expected because I seem to have forgotten everything I knew about setting up websites. Part of the problem with everything chugging along nicely for ten years is that you don’t need to use all that knowledge and so it slips away. It is the same with my printer, or with my smart devices. I can no longer remember how I set it all up.

One thing I did not expect was that a couple of blog posts have disappeared. I can only assume that it was part of the migration and I ignored some email notification. The ironic thing is that one of the posts I lost had the title “Losing it”. And the whole migration aftermath has made me realise that, perhaps, I am starting to lose it a bit.

Having said that, I do remember what I wrote in the post, but I am not going to write it again. It really was just too boring.