Here is a challenge that will come to all of us sooner or later, so perhaps we can learn from this how we can cope when it happens. In the last 24 hours my Radio has gone from 98% to 97% of 40 Meg free. I think it is probably due to my new stories, and I am now up to 22 News Aggregation Channel Subscriptions.
[Christian Crumlish (xian): salonika] QUOTE Yes, the problem is I've maxed out my server space at Salon's host, so I suppose this means moving over to my FTP server again. Even then, though I'll need to replace the home page at blogs.salon.com/0001111/ with some sort of link or redirect to the new address, or it will look like a dead blog to anyone coming in from an old bookmark or link! But how do I do that when my allocation is full? How do I clear out the remote host without killing my site? UNQUOTE [Christian Crumlish (xian): salonika]
Am I stating the obvious?
- Ask your ISP about buying a larger allocation.
- I added some more thoughts in Radio Discussion Thread.
- My most useful idea, in my opinion, is to search the Discussion Archives for the practicality of running two versions of Radio on same site at same time, for ease of moving stuff from old site to new site, and replacing old copy with pointers to new site.
- If you do that, first move to the new site, that on the old PC copy never got to the old site, so that does not get to the old site as you clean out enough disk space to make room for the pointers.
- URL not coming across so here it is http://radio.weblogs.com/0107846/stories/2002/08/18/understandRadioCategories.html
- In my essay "Understand Radio Categories", note the very last section on What else good to know about Categories where I direct you to Radio documentation on how to publish a category to a different FTP server. If you organize your stuff into Categories that are each hosted by different ISP, then it will be a longer time interval between incidents of having to deal with this.
- When you get your new url operational.
- carefully review if there is anything on your old archives that you could move to your replacement site. Especially anything that is a reasonably large chunk of text.
- The reason for a large chunk of text is to clear space on your old allocation, with minimum effort on your part.
- After you know for sure the old archives stuff is on the new.
- See if the old archives will let you edit so as to replace that large chunk of text with a one liner that redirects people to the new location.
- The reason for that is courtesy for anyone who has linked to stuff in your old archives.
- Now see if the verbiage that exited your old archives was in sufficient volume to permit the addition of a post on top pointing people to your new site.
- In the future, create a dummy post that is large enough to accomodate this kind of information, linking people to another site.
- The game plan is that when the ceiling is hit, and you have the new site, replace the dummy post with the new link.
- Consult with your filled up ISP.
- They may be able to improve on these suggestions.
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