05-07-2023, 10:20 PM
I am now officially an e-biz board tycoon again. You may metaphorically kiss the ring by dropping me a line.
Be nice, Fungus, or I shall smite you mightily.
While I may arguably end up having a better site on SiteGround than I had on Bluehost, I'm having to fight for every inch of ground.
First of all, I have to clear their Dynamic Cache (whoop-tee-dooooooo!) every time I make a minor little shitass change to my temporary static HTML front page, else it won't update when I reload the page. Took me awhile to figure out I needed to do that. None of my previous hosts ever foisted that fuckery upon me.
When you create a database and the required user for said database, it automatically generates a random alphabet soup name for both. You can give them human readable labels afterwards, which is necessary because ain't nobody gonna remember that gobbledygook.
Importing the SQL structure is another hurdle. PhpMyAdmin would only create half of the tables, and the error messages weren't helpful at all. I ended up having to copy and paste a few CREATE TABLE queries at a time and manually refreshing the table list each time to see what was and wasn't created. It also lists the tables alphabetically, which isn't the order the tables need to be created in due to foreign key dependencies, so I had to keep eyeballing both the list and my SQL file to see which tables were still missing.
Setting up Thunderbird for my e-mail account was another hassle. I spent an hour in tech support chat getting that working. I finally had to put in a whole different mail server name.
So yeah. I'll be back in business eventually.
Be nice, Fungus, or I shall smite you mightily.
While I may arguably end up having a better site on SiteGround than I had on Bluehost, I'm having to fight for every inch of ground.
First of all, I have to clear their Dynamic Cache (whoop-tee-dooooooo!) every time I make a minor little shitass change to my temporary static HTML front page, else it won't update when I reload the page. Took me awhile to figure out I needed to do that. None of my previous hosts ever foisted that fuckery upon me.
When you create a database and the required user for said database, it automatically generates a random alphabet soup name for both. You can give them human readable labels afterwards, which is necessary because ain't nobody gonna remember that gobbledygook.
Importing the SQL structure is another hurdle. PhpMyAdmin would only create half of the tables, and the error messages weren't helpful at all. I ended up having to copy and paste a few CREATE TABLE queries at a time and manually refreshing the table list each time to see what was and wasn't created. It also lists the tables alphabetically, which isn't the order the tables need to be created in due to foreign key dependencies, so I had to keep eyeballing both the list and my SQL file to see which tables were still missing.
Setting up Thunderbird for my e-mail account was another hassle. I spent an hour in tech support chat getting that working. I finally had to put in a whole different mail server name.
So yeah. I'll be back in business eventually.
