New Year, New Host
Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain’t coming back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can’t take the sky from me.- Firefly theme excerpt
After all these months, I never made a mention of Firefly in this blog. And that’s too bad, because I think it is arguably the best SF-themed show on TV ever! Granted that it only ran 14 episodes… but you can’t find any better-written series anywhere.
Anyway, I do digress. The quote is a reference to my website – THIS website. It is my sky: my Internet real estate, accessible from anywhere with the bandwidth, and thus, will always be there no matter where I physically am. Even when I die, this remains. (Er, just someone make sure the web and domain hosting bills are paid.)
This special commemoration is for a reason. I have just moved to a new hosting provider, Web Faction. It is only a margin more expensive than the old one, but has a lot more reasources and features to spare (e.g. shell access through SSH, SFTP, 4GB disk space). But the main draw is its ability to host a lot of interesting web frameworks: Django, Turbogears, and Ruby on Rails, to name a few. It’s an opportunity for me to try out these frameworks – purportedly enforcing good, industry-grade software engineering design practices. I’ll consider it an extension to my Object-Oriented Software Engineering course from last semester.
Web Faction even has ready-made WordPress packages, but too bad I couldn’t use it because I am stuck with the 2.0 version. I butchered and mutated the original WordPress code too much without regard to standard procedure. Upgrading to the latest 2.3.2 will only break this site and end in tears.
I now, for one, welcome my new hosting overlords.
(NOTE: DNS propagation takes a few days, so this message might not appear to everyone immediately after time of posting. Basically, if you can see this then that means you are now seeing the site in its new home.)