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Inside Passage

Super User North Pacific 06 May 2024

Inside Passage

Canada and Alaska

Our first cruise based holiday. In a word, 'Breathtaking!'.

We have a friend who lives on Vancouver Island and Wendy and I visited years ago. That time we hired a car and did a circular tour of British Columbia including Vancouver, Whistler, Jasper, Banff, and back to Vancouver. That trip was all self arranged. Whereas this holiday was almost totally prearranged, as to be expected for a cruise holiday. However, Princess Cruises allow flexibility to extend your holiday at either end of the cruise. We decided to arrive early in Vancouver. This would have the dual benefit of a visit to our friend and of allowing time to relax and wind down from the flight and work so that we were already chilled at the start of the cruise.

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Change of host Sept 2023

In the begining of August 2023 I transfered my ivanhurst.me.uk sites, including this one from 123-reg to IONOS. It was meant to be a simple task. However, that was to to be the case. The reason for the move was primarily the hugh increase in price that 123-reg was applying regarding email boxes. Previously, the upto 500 of the boxes were included in the various hosting packages I had. Now they were going to charge for each mailbox based on size, and as far as I could make out, this was going to cost me nearly £2,000. This was not acceptable, and I did not get satisfactory answers from support. So I turned off all the auto renews and stated to move sites and domains accross to IONOS.

Travel data problems

This is where it starts to get a little technical.

The site is built on a content management system, CMS, using Joomla. Joomla is moving forward and version 3.10.?? is being discontinued. Future developments are for version 4.??

Similarly, PHP 7 is being replaced with PHP 8.

Part of the migration is relatively simple, I have already changed to a new template which works on the new platforms.

However, some of the helper applications, which work within Joomla are not yet ready.

Fabrik is one of those applications, if fact a significant 'Joomla Custom Website Application Builder'.

Site refresh Easter 2021

I decided to give the site a bit of a refresh over Easter 2021 and install a new template and some additional functions. One of the things I didn't like about the old site was the delay in text appearing which probably meant some people left before the content appeared. This has been disabled now.