I'm running 24100.net on Subtext. In good accompany with Windows Live Writer I just love the solution. The Subtext team has just released version 2.0. Following a brief IM session with Tim Heuer - who runs his blog on Subtext, too - I've decided to migrate to the new version asap. While I'm doing so this site will experience some downtime. Please accept my apologies for that. Unfortunately I've tweaked the skin of this blog quite a bit to get Technorati and some other stuff working and went beyond standard Subtext skinning. Therefore the update will eventually take a bit longer than with a vanilla Subtext install.

So keep your fingers crossed, I'll be back and hopefully you won't notice anything. :-)

It has been a pure pleasure!

There's nothing to add. I updated my Subtext 1.9.6 driven blog to the newly released Subtext 2.0 without any issues. Here is what I did:

1. Made a back up of the MS SQL 2000 database.
2. Ordered a new MS SQL 2005 database. (Thanks to the guys at discountASP who proceeded with my order within seconds.
3. Restored the MS SQL 2000 back up to the newly created MS SQL 2005 database. No issues at all.
4. Uploaded the clean Subtext 2.0 web files to a newly created \blogv2 directory.
5. Changed the Web.config to point to the MS SQL 2005 database as a data source.
6. Accessing the Subtext 2.0 Control Panel started the database migration. Again, no issues whatsoever!
7. Uploaded my 24100.net skin files and added the skin to Skins.config.
8. Uploaded the images folder to my skin folder. I believe Windows Live Writer creates it.
9. Deleted the old blog directory. Renamed \blogv2 into \blog.
10. Replicated some of the manual modifications and tweaks for the updated Subtext source files.  I used a few to make some special things working which were beyond Subtext skinning.

Here you are. No difference - I hope - for my visitors except a possible minor increase in speed.

Now running on the latest Subtext version: 24100.net.