He’s Back!
by Mike on Nov.20, 2008, under Happy, Technology, blog
Ok, so I’m sure you know by now, that I thought, for some reason, it would be fun to host my own server, on my own laptop, in my house. This presented several problems:
- Low power from the laptop
- Limited manageability, especially while I’m away at RIT
- Unreliability the likes of which I have never seen
To remedy the situation, I switched my website hosting (the stuff I pay for) from Microsoft (why I ever did that in the first place, I don’t know), to Linux. This allowed me to transition everything over to a reliable host with more power than I had had before. This means that my blog should run quicker and smoother, and shouldn’t go down every other week! >:|
In short, I’m back! I’m going to continue to write as much as I can, about everything I can. As I mentioned on my blog’s home page, I have encorporated better PHP support, so if you would like to comment on my blog, please register by following the link on the right side of any page in my blog. It’s quick and painless, and you only have to do it once! 
Everything is up and running, thought I am still transitioning over a couple of minor things that didn’t come over so nicely (blog tags, images, etc). But everything should be in working order in the next few days. To celebrate, I applied a new theme, which I have found to be my favorite so far, along with Wordpress 2.7 Beta 3. I will be posting about Wordpress 2.7 in the coming days as I have a chance to play with it, but first impressions are good. Very good!
Until then…
November 21st, 2008 on 2:16 pm
You should put clean URLs on your agenda. Makes all the URLs look much cleaner, just makes sure the host supports mod-rewrite (I assume it’s Apache).
November 21st, 2008 on 3:09 pm
I’ll be sure to look into that! The URLs to my site and the blog won’t change, but I’m planning on changing the way the blog posts are handled. This is a simple change within the WordPress administration screen. I guess ?id=xxxxxx isn’t a very intuitive naming convention for blog posts!
November 21st, 2008 on 4:45 pm
Yeah, you could make it look like /blog/title-here or /blog/112108/post-title or any combination of a bunch of information. WordPress should be able to do it automatically in the dashboard.