I have been content with paying a lot for a hosting service that takes 10 seconds to serve my WordPress dashboard. That is, when it serves anything and doesn’t just give me a blank page or a php file for download…
There may be downtime for dns changes and emergencies (I’ve never done this before, screwups may happen… :))
Update: Seems I managed that without any major problems. Never transferred anything other than plain, static html sites before, so I was a bit nervous about the whole deal with moving databases and stuff.
I decided to sign up with Dreamhost. Seems to be a good value deal, 20GB disk space and a whopping 1TB of transfer is plenty of room for a web hobbyist like myself to play around with. My old host only allowed one domain per account, but now I don’t have to invest anything but the 5-10 dollars for domain registration when I want to try something out. And I have an idea or two.
Tags: Site info, update, web hosting
July 13, 2006 at 12:46 pm · Filed under Site info
Seems the blog has ground to a standstill recently. I guess one explanation could be called writer’s block. Or maybe just “block”, since I get them occasionally in other areas as well. It’s not like there’s a lack of ideas, nor a lack of motivation – it’s more like a wall between the ideas and the motivation.
Another reason for the scarceness of posts was that I was out of town for a week, visiting a friend. While staring at someone else’s screen could be considered a change of surroundings, I decided not to do that. I also got to meet the adorable little dog I mentioned a while ago. I’ve always been somewhat sceptical to small “ornamental” dogs, including Chihuahuas, but now I feel that if I ever get a dog that breed would be high on the list.
Well, to get back to this site, I’ve started the technical bit of redesigning the blog. I found a GPL licensed theme that made a good base and decided to scrap the idea of doing it all from scratch. Probably a good thing, since I and code don’t get along all the time. Progress (and most likely a bit of regress) can be seen at the mess that is my test install of WordPress
Tags: update
December 14, 2005 at 3:24 am · Filed under General