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Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Work, Work, Work

Base10 has not been posting so much the last couple of days. Still, no promised Jets wrapup for the year. (Maybe tonight after work). But Base10 has still been involved with blogging goodness. Diligently researching blogging tools, Base10 has a couple of choices:

Base10 bought his domain name, but still requires hosting. Herein lies the problem.

I could home host, but technically it's against the service agreement that I have with the Really Big Telecommunications Company that provides my DSL service. I'm also concerned that since upstream bandwidth is so low, home hosting might not be practical.

Then there's the question of platform. I don't want to go buy another computer, although that Mac-mini looks pretty cool! I have an old laptop that I'm using as a server, but for reasons I won't go into I can't upgrade it from Windows ME.

I can run Knoppix linux on it, but the installation leaves something to be desired. If I do this, it is still possible to use the Blogger API and SFTP the documents to my server which will then serve them up using Apache.

Another alternative is to get third-party hosting. This costs money too. But it does have the virtue of not having to mess with the machine at all.

Still another alternative is to upgrade my DSL account. I've been pricing some other providers, and it's about $100 a month for much higher speeds both upstream and down with no restrictions on ports (since the Really Big Company restricts incoming traffic on port 80). This is way cool, but the Really Big Company charges less than $40 a month--not very much at all.

In any event, what to do about Blogspot? I notice many people move off of Blogspot but keep their accounts there for backup/archive purposes.

So basically, I'm still undecided, but I'm probably going to at least try the home hosting in the near future.

In any event, for the bored, read my post today at OmapBlog ranking my top ten science fiction novels. OmapBlog is doing pretty well. Today we were linked by Donald Sensing which resulted in a sharp increase in traffic. I must say that I'm a little jealous.
- posted by Base10 @ 5:21 PM

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