Victor Sample Development Site

In my last entry I discussed the MT43News move from Open Vistsa to a Vultr unmanaged server to a Hosting.com managed server. It was a long journey, but we are now fully on the Hosting.com server and all of our processing is very smooth.  

In 2023, MT43News moved from the Open Vistas server to another server setup by the manager of the Open Vistas server. Basically we were evicted. However, he did do the setup we needed for the new server. Over the years we have had several problems -- the most severe was the email system. It NEVER worked properly.  I had created an setup a backup server on A2Hosting.com - since acquired by Hosting.com.  I set up the email on the Hosting.com system and our email problems went away.

Today is the last day that I will have websites on the Open Vistas Networking server.  As noted before, we were given 2 weeks (until October 15, 2023) to migrate all websites off the server.

It has been a hectic time.  I found a new managed server web hosting service that will allow me unlimited websites, unlimited databases and unlimited storage.  I have been able to replicate the website for our main business website on the new server.  It was not without drama!

I live in a small town in Montana.  For the last 10 years I have been creating and maintaining websites on a server owned/operated by a local resident.  We have been good friends all that time and he allowed me great freedom on his server.

I LOVE the Adobe Acrobat Reader Snapshot Tool!  I use that tool all the time.  I maintain a number of websites and while posting the actual pdf is appropriate for many things, it is not always what I need to do.

If someone sends me an image as a PDF and I need to include it in a page, I need to extract the image.  The Adobe snapshot tool usually works pretty well; but sometimes I need to extract text from an image embedded in a PDF.  

Seven or Eight years after I retired, I joined a local community service organization. The organization holds an annual "Fall Fest" event that had grown from a single day event in a small park featuring 2 vendors and a local musician playing music to a 3 day event featuring over 100 vendors and bands from all over the Northwest (and somtimes Nashville or Austin).

I have been working on a newspaper appliction where the subscriber can have multiple addresses.  In particular, a snow-bird subscription allows the subscriber to have multiple addresses and choose which address is the "active" printed edition deliver address.