James Duncan Davidson had the right idea about blogging tools:
“I’ve putzed around way to[o] much with weblogging software over the years. It’s been fun and rewarding. But it’s taken away my concentration from other things I should be doing.”
That was in late 2004.
Today I set up a Virtual Private Server with Slicehost with the intention of moving this domain to it, as well as laying down foundation for some upcoming projects. My logic was that having a VPS would allow me to run whatever crazy-ass blog software or services I so chose.
Halfway into the tedium of setting up my server I surveyed the world of hosted blogging for the first time in ages. TypePad still sucks. Blogger sucks harder, if that’s even possible. But WordPress.com does not suck, and just today they added support for custom domains. This serendipity got me thinking.
My email is now totally outsourced. Wouldn’t it be nice to do the same for blogging and the minimal file hosting needs I have for my domain? No upgrades, no patches, just write when I feel like writing. Always on and someone else’s problem. Yeah. Yeah.
So I get all my entries imported into a WordPress.com blog. I get the design looking halfway decent. And that’s when I find out that WordPress.com currently doesn’t allow for both hosting a blog and receiving email at the same domain name. This seems to defeat the purpose of such an offering entirely. Bah.
It’s really surprising that there’s not a mature hosted blogging offering in 2006. Like, shocking. What am I not getting?
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Author: andrew<br />
Posted: 2006-10-25 10:45:29<br />
<p>Not to rain on your parade, but isn’t this the Xth time you’ve changed hosts/blog software in the past few years?</p>
<p>Maybe I’m just losing my youthful nerdery, but aren’t these hosts and packages supposed to be good enough that you can just leave them alone? I guess you’re heading that way with outsourcing (<span class="caps">GAFYD</span>, etc) but how long will that last? </p>
<p>Since getting out of the tech “world” I’ve noticed something…finding a solution that is “good enough” that I don’t need to think about it is pretty much the holy grail. Case in point, my switch from Linux to Apple. Also, I’ve become a complete BlackBerry addict because it simply works. </p>
<p>Remember those website-in-a-box Cobalt machines? What happened to that idea?</p>
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Author: <a href="http://www.al3x.net">Alex Payne</a><br />
Posted: 2006-10-25 10:50:43<br />
<p>Andrew, that’s exactly the point. I’ve changed hosts and software way, way too often. I want something that just works, that I can leave alone, and that will still be around in a couple years.</p>
<p>I’ve also come to value deeply stuff that “just works.” Life’s too short.</p>
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