I’ve moved to a new domain! My website is now at brentlineberry.com!

Background

I first registered orangegnome.com in 2010. I was doing freelance web design and development work and used lineberrydesign.com for my portfolio site. I wanted a domain for some personal stuff, side project, little fun things, etc. At the time, brentlineberry.com was taken, so I did a little brainstorm of {adjective} {noun} combos and landed on “Orange Gnome” and orangegnome.com.

I’ve kept my eye on brentlineberry.com since. Nothing was ever hosted there, but there are other reasons to own a domain. I checked every fall when it came for renewal, and every year it renewed. Until this past fall. The registration lapsed, it made it through the various renewal grace periods and finally hit pendingDelete. Five days later it deleted, and I was able to buy it!

Migrating

I set up the new domain on my host and spent a few evenings testing it and making sure everything was working correctly. Tonight I kept the systemd service running, stopped the old orangegnome service, and set orangegnome.com to redirect to www.brentlineberry.com.

I chose to use the www to have better separated cookies if (when) I want to use a subdomain for something else.

Then I went through my database to update all the content to use the new urls. My SQL statement for these changes followed this template

update {table} set {field} = replace({field}, 'https://orangegnome.com', 'https://www.brentlineberry.com') where {field} like '%https://orangegnome.com%';

I’m sure I missed something, but I’ll take care of that when it comes up. I’m very excited to have my name dot com!