But you already knew that.
No, I am tearing my hair out over locked DNS entries tonight. This is the problem with sites built by volunteers for non-profits: When that volunteer moves on and doesn’t leave their info behind you get stuck with their host and plan. This is happening with two sites that I’m working on.
It’s really imperative that I switch hosts for both of them. They’re both being hosted on servers that have too little bandwidth and too little flexibility. Neither host is friendly to MySQL or PHP, and one of them is so maxed out that I can’t even load them on the server because there isn’t enough space and nothing that can be cleared.
My goal is to split that one into two sites — one that’s a “front door” and one that’s a “back door”. The ‘back door’ is the high-bandwidth site because it is the gateway for many music files and hopefully four or five blogs and photos. The front door is your basic “who we are and where to find us” website.
The problem is that the current back end database for the music stuff uses ASP.net, which the users are accustomed to and which is very nicely done. I don’t want to lose it. But I want to use WordPress as the CMS with sub-sites that are individual blogs and that can’t be done on that server.
I might — repeat MIGHT — be able to get this one unlocked in the near future. But the other site is locked up tight with no way to get hold of the original volunteer who holds the key to unlocking the domain. So how do I get this thing unlocked and transferred.
Help me……..I’m melting! 
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