If you’re reading this post, the DNS changes have propagated such that you’re now looking at this blog’s new home. I’ve switched to hosting with WebFaction — not because I had any serious problems with my previous provider, OCS Solutions, but because I hate both Webmin and cPanel. WebFaction uses a home-grown control panel interface that offers an excellent combination of “powerful enough to do what I need” and “simple enough not to tempt me with options I don’t know how to use properly.”
I’d been toying with using Tumblr as a replacement content delivery platform. It was new and sleek, but using it put me very much in the mind of a longer-form version of Twitter. The back-end management provided by the platform was just a bit too simple for my needs. So I’m still with WordPress, albeit on a different machine.
Tags: blogging
I have an abandoned site made with Drupal. I really spent a lot of time building it, make it look and behave the exact way I wanted.
Then, time passed and it faded out: things I wanted to post about just piled up in a corner. Now, when I fire the site up, it spits tons of deprecated warnings because the web server where it runs is updated on a regular basis and lots of PHP function used by the deployed Drupal installation are now obsolete.
I really don’t feel like updating it, even less to the upcoming Drupal 7. It’s such a painful process I don’t want even think about it. Looking back, I spent more time building the platform than writing content. That doesn’t even serve as a showoff as I never planed to become a Drupal consultant or do web based stuff for a living.
Then I saw your first post about Tumblr and the importance of writing content instead of tweaking the platform. I didn’t find the time to give Tumblr a try yet but well I more and more believe this is the way to go.