A quick update of the technical sort:
I’ve been pretty disenchanted with Haisoft for a while; not because they’ve gotten any worse than when I first signed up for hosting years ago, but because they haven’t gotten any better. All around them, internet hosting options were rapidly blooming into much more useable things. It was the cheapest option around when I signed up, but these days, ANY amount is too much for 100 MB storage / 1 GB transfer, not to mention the extra I was paying for subdomains and forwarding. Add to that their well-intentioned but lacking customer support system, and you get one very out-of-date hosting service. So when they changed my ftp ports to the more secure FTPES protocol, without sending me the obligatory “hey, by the way” email, and Blogger then refused to publish anything (apparently Blogger only supports the standard FTP port — weird), it quickly became obvious that, well, everything had fallen apart. Considering my noticeable lack of blogging lately, I considered just moving to blogspot for a while and hanging on to my domain, but the optimist in me still wanted to host somewhere. So that brings us to where we are now:
BlueHost, which gives me unlimited space, bandwidth, and subdomains, for less than I was paying before. Nice. Additionally, they gave me a free domain for signing up, so now there’s the brand new amylockaby.com (which is currently providing content identical to superamy.com, so don’t bother clicking — you’re already there!). On top of all of this, BlueHost provides one-click WordPress install, as well as easy Blogger imports, which means I’ve managed to leave Blogger altogether for WordPress. I’m not entirely sure how I like it yet — the theme / template / widget environment still occasionally offends my primitive hand-coded html side, but I’ll be the first to admit: setup was ridiculously easy.
In other news, I bought a car — a black 2005 Pontiac Vibe. The newness of it is weird, since I like old, small cars, and also it smells funny. But it runs well, has all Toyota parts, and is a hatchback, which I am especially fond of. I am thinking of taking it to the beach one weekend and camping in the back, just because I can.
I’ve started some new projects at work this past month, and I’m honestly having a complete blast. I’m getting to go back to a lot of the basic system design stuff I learned at Lander, and for the first time in a while, I have had many days where I haven’t wanted to leave for lunch, or to go home at five. It’s pretty exciting.
The internet is pretty amazing, and I’m going to take more advantage of it one of these days. New stuff soon — posts and content included — I promise.
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