I haven’t written much lately. For this, I do apologize. There are a couple of reasons for this but the largest one being that I’ve been spending a considerable amount of time looking into two things: web hosting and blog authoring software.
Web Hosting has been a necessity as I plan to revive my rachynski.org domain and blog with that again. In order to do so, though, I had two choices: continue to use a service, like WordPress, and pay to have my domain forwarded to it or get separate hosting altogether.
I’ve opted for the second option as I’ve been finding customizing the layout and theme for my current WordPress blog to be a little confusing. Being able to edit a theme also does not come free as you have to “upgrade” to enable that feature. The upgrade is not that expensive ($15 per year) but it still doesn’t grant total flexibity. To do so, I’d have to install WordPress onto a host machine (or service) rather than use WordPress.com.
Also, it would also cost me an additional $10 per year to point rachynski.org to a WordPress.com blog. This also isn’t a huge amount of money but if it’s costing me money to forward to a service that’s limited, I’d sooner pay a little more for total control over the blog for that domain.
This leads me to my second dilemma: if I’m going to use blog authoring software, WordPress is not my only choice. Don’t get me wrong – I’m quite happy with WordPress thus far and as far as (free) blogs go, I think they’re simply the best.
In the past I’ve also used software called TextPattern, which I was also quite impressed with. The only reason that I stopped using it was because I decided to stop paying for web hosting and use a free blog service (ie. WordPress.com) instead.
I’m sure that there are other equally good options as well that I have not yet looked into.
Anyway, the point I’m getting at is that this blog is now on it’s death bed – at least in its current state. It’s going to be manifested again as rachynski.org sometime in the near future. Because of this, I haven’t been driven to write more as it’ll just be more that has to get carried over to the new system, or will be simply lost altogther (I haven’t decided to carry the blog posts forward or not as of yet).
If anyone has any suggestions for web hosting or blog authoring software, I’m all ears. At this time, I’m planning getting my hosting through Media Temple (http://www.mediatemple.com) and running WordPress (http://www.wordpress.org) on it. The only requirement (currently) for Web Hosting at this point is that the service include PHP 4.3 or greater and MySQL 4.0 or greater.
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