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Over the course of the weekend, I will be moving this site to a new server located here in the Seattle area. 

We moved web hosts last weekend.

If you are seeing this post, then you have arrived at the new server.

You might have noticed a couple of things — a new paint job, carpet, and furniture, but the real change is in the speed the page loads.

Why the move so quickly after the last move?

Well, frankly, IX Webhosting sucked. They did not live up to their claim of being the #1 webhost with a 99.99% reliability — unless I read it wrong and you could reliably assume that they would be down for that period of time.

I think I have learned my lesson about using a “shared” web hosting plan. They may be cheap, but eventually the hosts will fill up their servers with hundreds of other web accounts and everything will act as if you were swimming through Nickolodean goop to get to your site. But you get what you paid for, and cheap usually means unreliability.

Now we are on a virtual server through the Spry Networks. I have become my own webhost, and currently the only other website we are sharing the server resources with is Grouchy’s Liberaltopia. I pay quite a bit more to run my own virtual server and in order to offset some of the costs I will be offering to host a select few websites for other people. But instead of trying to cram 500 websites on a server, I will only accept no more than ten — at roughly the same price it would cost at a shared webhosting plan.

About the new look here.

WordPress has gone through a major upgrade in their publishing platform. The old theme here was specifically written for the WP 2.0 version, and while it would work in the WP 2.1 version, I needed to upgrade it to take advantage of some of the newer features. Besides, it can get a little boring seeing the same thing all the time.

So while we wait for everything to propagate over the InterTubes, I will be playing around with the theme design here.

[UPDATE:]  I didn’t get much time to work on this on Sunday.  I am still in the middle of a physical move to our new house.  Besides, I needed to let the DNS finish its propagation before I finish tidying up here.

[Second UPDATE:]  As in the song, Henry the Eighth, (yes, that dates me)  The second verse is the same as the first.  I haven’t had the time available to finish what I started here yet.  I am currently involved in another move — finishing up on getting out of the other house.  Two dump trucks full of Aaron’s crap on its way to the dump, and still another truckload to go.  (he has this thing about collecting stray computers, gadgets, and Alfa Romeos and dumping them where they are)