Beyond Patrolling Beyond Fusion

Sometimes events sweep you away a bit faster than you’d like. If you’re new to these “Patroling Beyond Fusion” segments, welcome. This one is a bit unplanned, and different because it contains a podcast attached. Things have changed, and hopefully, you won’t notice at all! Our podcast is hosted on two different services.  A “local*” hosting company that handles the fusionpatron.com frontend WordPress site, and Blubrry, which handles serving the podcasts into the feeds. But, and this is the important bit, they work in tandem with one another on scheduling and content. We’ve been having an increasing number of issues with the local host of the WordPress site and it all came to a head yesterday (November 30th) and I made the hasty, but also necessary, decision to migrate to a new host. Things were looking excellent, with a high probably of success, right up to the moment I switched the domain to point away from the old host and towards the new host.  In 25 years of dealing with domains and DNS and whatnot, this was the slowest, weirdest DNS change I’ve ever witnessed.  Oh, sure, they tell you it might take up to 72 hours, but I’ve never seen one take more than 2 hours — and that was really unusual. This one took about 22 hours (and maybe still counting,) and I’ve bitten my nails down to the quick.  I went to bed last night thinking today would be a very bad day going into the release of this week’s episode about Doctor Who: The Star Beast. When I woke up it seemed to me mostly working, but will it release a podcast? I have two choices: I wait until the Star Beast goes live tonight or release a test podcast. Welcome to that test podcast. But, I thought, why completely waste everyone’s time unless I can convey additional information? For those of you who listen to the podcast and never check out the website, I’ve started a series of weekly(ish) behind-the-scenes blog posts called “Patrolling Beyond Fusion,” where I try to keep you up-to-date on what’s happening and perhaps even give you the opportunity to give feedback before episodes are recorded. Once I get the hosting settled to my satisfaction, there’ll be more announcements, so for now, keep your eye out right here on the website for more details. *They were once local to me but have now been bought out by someone else.