Well Dreamhost went ahead and did the server move I guess. It was going to happen eventually regardless. The impact isn’t too severe. For the most part it seems that php gracefully disabled the incompatible extensions. I will have to recompile all of them for the new architecture. Read more…
Hrmph! I had to do some changes to the https configuration to make it show properly in my hosting provider’s web panel. So https is going through a few cycles before it works again on both the main site (this one) and my subversion repository. The changes shouldn’t cause any downtime though since the ip isn’t changing this time. Actually there really wasn’t any downtime when I did add it.
I also made some changes to a cygwin mirror on my sister domain that should make it so that it won’t have issues with 404′s in the setup installer. I’ve never personally gotten any but I know there have been some so this should eliminate all the rest. Of course the ones for favicon.* and robots.txt will still happen since they don’t exist on that mirror.
I am turning on the https stuff. Initially it will be down due to the static ip address that will need to be configured. Afterwards you will have a self-signed certificate until the host can get the new certificate installed. You probably won’t see it unless you are logging in.