I’ve had a Web host for over 10 years now and until now what they’ve offered has been sufficient: they hosted my web address and offered static HTML and handled my email for me. While they certainly didn’t offer a rich set of services,Pair.com charged me about $15 a month for this service, and that was that.
I’ve just recently started playing with Groovy and Grails and actually wanted to host a Grails App that would send a tweet broadcasting the ferry schedule, which I take daily. We’re not talking rocket science, but I thought this would be a quick task that would get me to learn Grails. Now, of course, I needed to find a host. Enter slicehost.
Yes, the service will now cost me closer to $40 a month, but I get to run my own box. I pwn root! Anyway, long story short I’ve set up Apache, MySQL, my own e-mail server, and I figured I might as well migrate to WordPress since I now can run whatever I want on this box.
Anyway, I’ve imported all my old posts from Blogger, but I need to fix the format and all, so… errr… pardon my dust!