movement.
A word of warning: Don’t go anywhere near Craig Dilks’ click-hosting.co.uk sham. The guy runs Plesk on a wayyy underspecced VPS (!) and does one hell of a shoddy job of it. (Elaboration: ports were open all over the shop, system load of 26.0 averaged over a day or so, lord knows how many network IOs but netstat filled my terminal buffer.)
Not only that, I suspect due to non-payment of bills, the whole outfit has dissapeared off the Internet, doing away with my entire posting history since 2007. So I’ve had to start all over again, with Allys as editor and general post-motivator.
I’ve taken this opportunity to update the somewhat dated theme (originally made on an ancient K6 laptop with Paint and Notepad) to a striking (but simple) green/orange noise gradient theme using 960.gs. It really does take a lot of the layout work, and I intend to post a tutorial on using the 960 Grid System at some future point in time. The original CSS for the template was less than 60 lines long, although it has expanded a bit since adding necessary Wordpress additions that I didn’t account for.
I have also moved the hosting over to Amazon EC2. Whilst there’s a moral question mark hanging over moving my hosting on Wikileaks’ old home, it doesn’t bother me that much, and I suppose they really should have been hosting on their own dedicated server anyway with a provider like prq.to, who hosts The Pirate Bay among others.. It is just like having a full featured free VPS (as long as you stick to the t1.micro tier) with infinite expandability as your site gets bigger, and it comes complete with a CDN. The only thing I do lament is that S3 should have an FTP interface, or the Wordpress Total Cache plugin should have S3 support. Either of the two would do me just fine.
Not planning on doing something like large-scale hosting on it, though.
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