I am naught but a disabled, impotent screw-up.
After rising around 1:18 a.m. overnight as detailed in yesterday's post, I never returned to bed until something like 6:04 a.m. because, of course, I ran swiftly and directly after iniquity.
My actual morning was to begin at 9 a.m. when I rose to come here to my computer, and I never did seek a nap until shortly after mid-afternoon. By then, my wife had left on her drive to work at the Thai restaurant that employs her.
She hasn't been very communicative with me, but I certainly do not blame her. I am her husband, after all ─ not someone of worth and merit.
I never put in any work on the new version of my website MyRetirementDream.com overnight nor today, but I suppose my wife's presence has been the primary reason. If she doesn't show up this evening after her half day of work, then I will likely resume work overnight on the very first post that I have yet to make at my website.
Of course, I will only be up overnight to do that work if my younger brother fails to show up this evening by the 8:30 p.m. deadline that I have in place for him. Whenever he does not arrive home by 8:30 p.m. from wherever he has been drinking, I then keep watch for him and hie myself to bed as soon as I am aware of his homecoming.
It is not worth it to me to risk his condition any later than 8:30 p.m. Sometimes he is intolerable even when he's home at the start of the evening, so I have set 8:30 p.m. as the cutoff. There has to be one, and so 8:30 p.m. is my choice.
Naturally, he is unaware of any such deadline, and just assumes that I seem to retire exceptionally early more often than not.
I want to make note of quite a surprise I had today when I visited my Google AdSense account. To wit, the surprise was that it declared that yesterday, my account accumulated 5¢ through my website Thai-Iceland.com.
You may wonder what is so surprising about that.
Well, the website is one of five that I had on a single 'baby' account at HostGator. MyRetirementDream.com was the primary domain, and Thai-Iceland.com was one of four add-ons to the account.
I now have MyRetirementDream.com hosted at InterServer, for near the end of September I turned my back and just walked away from my account at HostGator because they had put my websites offline. So I made the nearly immediate snap decision to just finally be done with them for all time after better than a decade as a customer, because they have pulled that dirty tactic before. This would be the very last time they would be using that shock tactic on me. I would no longer be their hostage ─ and I applauded myself for paying for my account on a monthly basis beginning a couple of years ago, rather than buying a subscription of one or two years as I had previously done. By going monthly, I would never have to face losing a lot of money on some remaining unused subscription if HostGator sought to ever 'strong-arm' me ─ like they had just attempted to do, insisting I needed to move to an expensive dedicated server rather than a shared server.
And of the five website domain names that I had hosted with them as websites, I have only retained possession of MyRetirementDream.com and Thai-Iceland.com. So I had believed all five of those websites no longer existed ─ except, of course, MyRetirementDream.com that was now alive at InterServer. As yet, I had not gotten around to starting up a new Thai-Iceland.com.
Nonetheless, I decided to 'visit' Thai-Iceland.com, and lo! The website is still online with HostGator!
I now recall that HostGator had said something about keeping my account with them active for a month after our separation, so it has yet to be closed by them. However, because I have cancelled possession of three of the five domains on that HostGator 'baby' account, I guess the websites associated with them can no longer exist.
And since MyRetirementDream.com is now hosted by a different web host, the only active website version is my new one at InterServer.
Therefore, my website Thai-Iceland.com is all that I have left of the five websites that were all formerly online at HostGator. But it will only be alive until sometime later this month when HostGator officially terminates my account with them.
I am glad now that I never set it up as an addon domain to my current InterServer account. I was going to, but I have all I can do to try and get something posted to MyRetirementDream.com ─ I can not possibly work on Thai-Iceland.com too.
Had I also gotten it set up with Interserver, then I would not have earned those precious few cents with Google AdSense. And who knows? Maybe it will earn a wee bit more ere it goes dark at HostGator.
Since the website is still online, I tried something else ─ specifically, accessing its HostGator cPanel and then doing some research to see how I might be able to download its database separately from the four other websites on that 'baby' account.
Although I was never intending to transfer any of my account's HostGator database over to another web host because it is far too large ─ 11.4 gigabytes ─ I began considering that maybe Thai-Iceland.com could be an exception.
Normally I have always accessed my account's entire database by logging into cPanel via the main domain (MyRetirementDream.com), but now because that website is online and hosted at InterServer, the only cPanel login access I am presented with at the URL "https://myretirementdream.com/cpanel" is the cPanel at InterServer.
Fortunately, I long ago recorded the login details for the specific cPanel of Thai-Iceland.com back when I first set up the website on my HostGator 'baby' account.
I began with a little improvising by using this diagram from a GreenGeeks.ca article titled How Do I Split an Addon Domain Into Its Own cPanel Account? (I of course looked for the file folder that was named "Thai-Iceland.com" and not "ggexample.net" that the arrow at the right in the image is pointing to):
I then used the "Option 3: Manual Website Backup" download instructions I found in this article at Hostinger.com titled How to Download a Backup of Your Website. The illustration associated with "Option 3: Manual Website Backup" seemed to be directing that I should be backing up the Thai-Iceland.com "public_html" directory, but I ignored that and instead went by the directions in the first article's illustration.
That is, I indicated the whole file of Thai-Iceland.com as seen in that illustration; and then I right-clicked it and saw that there was indeed a "Compress" option. I clicked that; and when offered the "Compression type", I chose a .zip file.
With that done, I chose "Compress file(s)" at the bottom of that small option window or popup. When the rather lengthy "Compression Results" display appeared, I was initially taken aback, but then I saw that I was only supposed to close that display, ignoring it.
I think I was expecting an option to appear that would allow me to select a destination to download the .zip file to, but nothing like that was presented. As the instructions at that second article state, I had to return to the cPanel's "File Manager" icon and then keep looking in (I believe) the public_html directory of Thai-Iceland.com until I saw a file identified as "Thai-Iceland.zip" (or maybe it was "Thai-Iceland.com.zip"?).
I clicked on it as instructed, and located the "Download" option in the upper menu bar of the File Manager database that I was in as shown in this illustration:
The "Download" option is just above and at a left diagonal direction to that "x" in the top left corner of the "Compress" popup ─ in other words, it's the fifth option in that menu bar just beneath the words "cP File Manager" at the left corner of that illustration.
At first I thought that the .zip file download was failing in my browser ─ that was the indication that I was seeing. I was about to try changing my file option to a .tar file, but then I checked my browser's Download folder ─ and there it was.
So I removed it from there and got it onto my computer's desktop, just as I would do if I wanted to save a photo or video to my computer.
Unfortunately, the .zip file is still rather dauntingly large ─ 726 megabytes. If I was to get it uploaded to my InterServer cPanel's database as an addon domain to MyRetirementDream.com, I fear that it would quickly become burdensome there in a matter of just a few years.
Remember, my HostGator account had grown to 11.4 gigabytes in something over a decade with five domains on the account; and as a result, it was being accused of sometimes hogging the shared server's resources. I don't want to prematurely have that start happening at my InterServer account.
So I doubt that I will be transplanting the Thai-Iceland.com file there. Just as I am now doing with MyRetirementDream.com, I will probably eventually start afresh with a brand new version of the Thai-Iceland.com website that is still online for a wee bit longer this month at HostGator.
Still, it will be rather difficult from a sentimental perspective to just delete that massive file from my computer's desktop, so I won't do that for some time yet.
Anyway, I must hasten and finish this post so I can get it published ─ it is 8:48 p.m., and I can hear my brother now home, hauling the wheelie bins out to the curbside for tomorrow's emptying.
My wife is going to be home tonight after all, but at least I am getting to bed early ─ my brother again exceeded his 8:30 p.m. deadline. I will be up overnight as desired.
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