Well…I’m back.
By now, the new nameserver entries should have propagated out to everyone who reads this. (I think there are a few of you.)
Windypundit used to be served by a low-budget Windows-based business hosting service called LFC Hosting. For a pretty low monthly fee, they hosted both my business site and this blog. They have a great many features turned on for this price, including MYSQL and Microsoft SQL databases. If you know how to build web sites, have a small budget, and don’t need to support high-volume web traffic (i.e. the web site does not constitute your primary business activity) then LFC is a good place to start.
The downside is that their servers are a bit slow, probably because they squeeze a lot of sites on them to save money. Readers of Windypundit might not have noticed it, because once the page pops up they just scroll down the page. I, on the other hand, am always clicking around the MovableType user interface, usually updating and rebuilding either postings or site templates. The 2-5 second pauses each and every time were getting quite painful.
Now, for only a few dollars per month, I’m hosted with these guys:
They’re a MovableType Hosting Partner. The servers are linux-based, and I guess that means they run Perl a lot faster. MovableType, let me tell you, screams on the 2MHost server.
I’m enjoying this.
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