I went to bed with my FTP client slowly deleting the old files for Drupal so I could upload the new ones, and that was exactly what I did when I got up in the morning. However, with nearly 18K files, there was no way the upload was going to complete before I needed to head out to work and I didn’t want to interrupt the upload process while I was in transit. (Remember this.) I left my machine to do its work while I went to do mine, and you know how that went from the previous WIP Update. Well, when I got back home, I found that the connection to the FTP server had timed out and the client was still stubbornly trying to ram files through without success. As I’ve only ever done small-scale uploads until now, I didn’t quite handle things as efficiently as I could’ve, but that doesn’t change the fact that my FTP connection is only good for about 6K files.

I spent the evening doing iteration after iteration trying to get those dang files across. While I was doing that, I was seriously looking into alternatives to Drupal. Joomla strikes me as too similar to WordPress, which is fine for the blog but not really suited for what I want to do with the main site. Concrete5 had some recommendations, but as I was testing a demo, I remembered doing so before and not liking it then either. Also, like Drupal, it has a nasty habit of making changes to the source code you input, only it does things that the current HTML rules don’t like, and I really don’t need that. At the cost of having the basic framework designed for me, I was looking into something that wasn’t WYSIWYG, which led me to CMS Made Simple. It’s a lot closer to what I want, even if it’d take more work to develop the skeleton of the site myself. I vowed that if the upload failed again, I was hopping ship. However, after something like the eighth or ninth try, I finally got all the files uploaded and everything was functional again. The only thing really holding me back is the fact that Drupal is already optimized for mobile, which would’ve taken a fair bit of effort for me to design myself. Also, I learned a lot from the repeated failures in the update process, so I feel it will go a lot smoother next time.

During the FTP shenanigans, I was doing offline prep work, so I’m ready to go all in reconstructing the site content. While there’s some appeal of using my free time in the office for writing, I really need to focus on getting the site back in order. And with that, the work begins anew. Stay tuned.

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