I host my email service and web hosting in the EU. The last version of Windows I used at home was Windows 2000, as I switched to Linux and Fedora v1 when it was released in 2003.
This blog your reading was running on mysql 5.x, I had tried a few quick updates to the latest version but was encountering errors. So after work today, I set to have another go.
I created a new database and left it a while to settle; last time I think I had rushed it before things were ready.
I then downloaded my latest sql backup and uploaded to the new database. Again left things to settle and then updated my WordPress config file. WordPress connected asked me to update and here we are up to date.
Apart from giving large time gaps between the key steps, everything I did was the same as last time, but this time it seems to have worked.
Using a none windows OS, using other hosting methods other then just putting everything on Facebook, gives you freedom but also can generate issues. Still its worth it.
