Part of the reason that it has been so quiet around here is because I have been rewriting the website from scratch. For the last four years, I have been using WordPress to run this blog. While the rapid pace of development and community of users have been great (I think the only other piece of software that I have consistently used for such a long period of time is Firefox), I have increasingly found myself dissatisfied with it.
One of my major concerns right now is server resources. My slice only has 256 MB of RAM, but is running email, my MySQL databases, and this website. Occasionally, I try to access it only to find that it has run out of memory and is inaccessible. I am not certain that this is the result of WordPress, but I have tried to control every other variable (changing my Apache configuration, etc.) with limited success. Either way, my future development plans do not currently include working with PHP, and WordPress was the last PHP application running on my server.
Writing a weblog from scratch means that some of the features that were available in WordPress are no longer present. Among the changes:
- Comment submission is currently disabled. To tell the truth, I have not coded it yet, since I would like to make it more elegant than the previous model.
- I am not longer producing RSS standard syndication feeds, just Atom.
- I have 410'd a number of RSS feeds which I had previously deprecated.
- The feed for this website is now located at http://www.marteydodoo.com/feed/ instead of http://www.marteydodoo.com/feed/atom/.
Although Wired is reporting on the impending demise of the personal website, I am bucking the trend, I guess.
# At 22:37 on October 5, 2008, Martey wrote:
Comments have been re-enabled, but threaded comments are gone.
# At 23:36 on October 26, 2008, maanit wrote:
I decided to start over with textpattern (today, incidentally). No content yet though... and still PHP :-(. I'll let you know how it goes.
# At 23:37 on October 26, 2008, maanit wrote:
Note, after I posted that comment, I wasn't redirected back to the article... you might want to fix that at some point.
# At 21:28 on February 15, 2009, Darren wrote:
Wordpress is pretty slow on my host too (Dreamhost), and I have 150 MB VPS + 150 MB MySQL VPS. I'm tempted to rewrite it as well, but it seems like a time-consuming project.