So, the more I tried to rewrite years of work that went into my music site, the more frustrating it got. I declared defeat today and just migrated the site as is: apache/php/mysql over to my VPS. Fuck it. Life goes on.
The bright side: so much time and work went into writing the site -- the engine is 100% written from scratch -- that it is just as well I continue to use it. Everything just works. Everything is easily findable.
