This is my second major move, and this one was WAY less painful. I decided to change my web hosting company from Textdrive to DreamHost. Textdrive has been good to me, but in the recent past the server that I was on required entirely too many reboots from the administrators at Textdrive. As a result of this, my websites were going down for anywhere from a few minutes to as long as a number of hours. While I don’t run any Fortune 500 companies on Textdrive, I do think the server crashes are unacceptable. I think Textdrive may do a better job of handling large websites that aren’t sitting on “shared” servers, but the nature of the openess of their servers meant that any one of the people doing development on the server could bring it down. I don’t require that sort of configurability, so DreamHost should work beautifully for me.
That being said, I will be working to customize the look and fell of this WordPress powered weblog of mine. Now with commenting! My previous “roll your own” approach to weblogging left me wanting for a few features, and while I could have programmed those features, I really never could find/make the time. Hopefully this new weblog engine will reinvigorate my enthusiasm for writing.
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