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I have a couple of demonstration sites.\u00a0 Vast<\/strong><\/a> & Property Information<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

These are sites that I use to demonstrate certain functions of a programme or to display results.<\/p>\n

Early on I started with a Google Map that I applied data over. For some reason, it is a bit sensitive on my VPS site and doesn’t work.<\/p>\n

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As I wanted that information running straight away I just used my AwardSpace site to have this information on and put a link from my VPS hosted site (as I didn’t want to spend time debugging the issue relating to the VPS at that time).<\/p>\n

My awardspace account is expiring early next year and I need to migrate data across from it to a new site. I am looking for another free hosting alternative.<\/p>\n

AwardSpace is a great service for the first year, then the sites become a bit expensive. I would have gone to them for my VPS but they only do Linux, not Windows, and I wanted to ease my way into the VPS area by staying with windows server (more expensive) but familiar. I have had a few accounts with them but I think they want me to pay going forward. Fair enough from their perspective.<\/p>\n

I looked up free hosting and found this article<\/a><\/strong>, and decided to give infinity free<\/a><\/strong> a try.\u00a0 Sol I’m going to use FileZilla to transfer my site information across from one site to the other. Once I have the information on the new site I’ll need to re-establish the links from the AwardSpace URL to the Infinity URL on the websites I have on my VPS.<\/p>\n

An aside about website maintenance<\/h3>\n

Maintenance is a constant challenge, whether to keep your data updated and how much time you wish to spend maintaining the systems and processes.<\/p>\n

I am interested in exploring information, and create demonstration processes to reflect these ideas. I need the example up and running so people can visit the site and see it running, and I also have a record of my process too.<\/p>\n

I’m exploring data and I want to extend myself and try new things. If someone would like to pay me to do these processes for them I’m happy to keep the data updated.<\/p>\n

I’ve already done the exercise, know its feasible, now onto another idea and challenge. I do not want to spend a lot of time doing maintenance.<\/p>\n

This is why I like WordPress, its free, there are lots of plugins and the sites are generally easy to manage.<\/p>\n

I have done a couple of non-WordPress sites and they took a long time to set up (good learning). Also, if things changed (linked to other code) you had to go and identify the breaks and fix them. Time-consuming. I was interested in content, not the site maintenance (which, like a lot of other things can take a lot of time).<\/p>\n

The particular web map with condition works with a .geojson file and JavaScript calls. I would change it to a database and JavaScript in the future if someone was interested in the programme,\u00a0 so I’m not, at this point in time, interested in updating it.<\/p>\n

But for the present, I need this example running on a site somewhere.<\/p>\n

Moving files between servers using FTP<\/h3>\n

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used for the transfer of computer files between a client and server on a computer network.<\/span><\/p>\n

Filezilla is a free programme that does this. I find, if you get the parameters set up for a new site its brilliant, if you don’t get the parameters set up right it’s just massively frustrating. Once you have the protocol (HostName, IUserName, Password, Port) setup and stored it merrily works thereafter and is great for doing big uploads across server sites to\/from PC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In this case, I have only figured out how to copy from one server to my PC, so I’ll copy from AwardSpace site to my PC, then transfer to Infinity site.<\/p>\n

A lot of free hosting sites also offer a free domain. At awardspace, it has an extension .dx.am, at infinity its .rf.gd ( I thought the award space one was cool. I got a site name ekar.dx.am, backward that’s ma.xd.rake). I have kept the domain as asta0 in the new case, so the new one is asta0.rf.gd. I have just checked it and it works (sometimes takes a couple of days to propagate the domain name, this works after 1 day).<\/p>\n

So, once you have Filezilla setup, copy files from AwardSpace server to PC then from PC to InfinityFree.net<\/p>\n

Check files work with new URL (A Uniform Resource Locator, colloquially termed a web address, is a reference to a web resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.) Once tested to see that new URL works, eg old URL:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/astra0.dx.am\/w\/data\/MapOfCondition\/index.html<\/p>\n

New URL<\/p>\n

http:\/\/astra0.rf.gd\/w\/data\/MapOfCondition\/index.html<\/p>\n

(an aside, this does not work(sometimes) on my main PC in Firefox, but does work on my tablet in Firefox. On the main PC works fine in Chrome).<\/p>\n

Updating WordPress Links in Databases.<\/h3>\n

Here is the supposed WordPress way of updating links, personally I have never had success this way on my VPS I am running MySQLWorkbench (not PHP Admin) that does nothing with the Update command. SQL command below:<\/p>\n

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = REPLACE ( \u00a0post_content, \u00a0'text to find here', \u00a0'text to replace here');\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
Find and replace text across a whole WordPress web site using phpMyAdmin<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n