That took a while

Not that this site is popular, but in case anyone has actually visited the migrations.ml URL and wondered why it was non-existent for months, the short story is that I’ve been kind of busy with work and domestic life, which crowds out the time required to get the g/d site up and running. And time was required, because as Homer Simpson once said: “Lord help me Marge, I’m not that bright.”

Way back in 2018 when I took the first steps to getting the company off the ground there were a few companies in the news with the .ai suffix. I didn’t want to follow the crowd, and machine learning is a subset of AI, so “.ml” was new and unique. What a stroke of creative genius!

Too bad .ml doesn’t make it past spam filters, or MS Exchange firewalls, or general perceptions of safety. Sending attachments, and an overly complicated email signature (xml files! run for your lives!) didn’t help. Eventually recipients got my emails, but there were more hassles than if I had chosen migrations.io or something else.

Anyway, fast forward to the winding down of the company, and as I try to create this new website with Squarespace, I can’t just transfer the domain to them, because they won’t accept domain with the .ml suffix. So I have to ‘connect’ to it. I was never the tech person at Migrations.ml, so what followed with Squarespace was a journey of learning about the difference between what Freenom and Cloudflare do, and then how to get Squarespace to connect with the Cloudflare DNS settings. It took a long while, and a session with my friend Jacques to get it sorted out. Who knew I should have “Proxy” shut off for all of my CNAME and A records??? Well, Jacques did, but no one at Squarespace help. Ugh, that took a long while.

So I’m now up and running, and the next blogpost will be up in the next few days, not several weeks. If there’s anyone out there actually reading this.