Ok for those of you that have found the temp page for my website, here is what is happening.
First off, the old site setup was a total disaster. I mean TOTAL DISASTER!!! A SQL database nightmare. The old website grew over the year’s from a site that was setup wrong in the first place back in 2006/2007 time frame and was moved to different hosting servers over the years.
The first part of the site actually dates back to 1996, yes, that old when it was part of the SCC.net hosting that outgrew the tiny storage of the shared hosting setup and over the years it grew and grew then BNVN came into the picture in 2001. BNVN or Breaking News Video Network took over all of my free time. Now over the last 18 year’s, the personal page has been called Lightnningboy.com and then morphed into WeatherPaparazzi.com and was neglected, forgotten about, put on life support and tried to make a come back but it just took time I did not have.
Now in 2019, I was trying to get this site back up and running earlier this year but again, time was short, work was plenty and my family came first so it again got pushed back.
I’m back trying to get all the data transferred and here is the deal. I need to get this thing rebuilt for several reasons.
A) I want to have something for Laura to read about when she is older to know who Daddy is and was. Money can come and go, but time, you can never buy more time in this life. Once it is gone, it is gone. You can buy things to replace things but you can never buy more time to live.
B) The lightningboy.com website blogs and the WeatherPaparazzi.com blogs data became corrupted over several database transfers and hosting platform moves. While the images were mostly still there, the links to all the videos were blown out. Total mess.
C) I want to bring my personal site back to life. With the amount of time and energy that is sucked up by other social media websites that don’t pay for content (except for Youtube which pays nothing near what it did five year’s ago) and all the websites that are freaking out about censorship and demonetization of content.
And last but not least, there are people that just don’t use social media and refuse to get a Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter account just due to privacy. I can respect that so basically I’m still working on bringing the content back home now that I have my own servers. This move is still underway, just longer then expected.