I have been hosting my domains out of my basement for the last seven years. First they were on a linux box and then on Mac OS X Server. The move to OS X server really made things pretty easy, but I still had to maintain the hardware, and most of it is getting old. Since I didn’t want to buy a new server right now, and I would like to save electricity and reduce the fan noise in our family room, I decided to search for a hosting provider.

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tags: hostican | hosting | internet | wordpress

I just finished a major overhaul of this site, including a migration off of the server in my basement to a real hosting service. Not that there was anything wrong with hosting it in my basement, but I am getting a little tired of being a system administrator when I should be spending my time writing for the site instead. While moving the site, I made extensive changes to the theme to make it look more modern and also did a lot of extension work to makes sure that the site is behaving well with Google, Technorati, and others.

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tags: blogging | hosting | wordpress