July 9, 2007

Website Upgraded

My home page was due for a much needed overhaul, so I took the opportunity to search around for a blogging solution. Being a bit dubious of free blog hosting services, I began searching for php-based blogging solutions. I get free web hosting for a personal web page with my current ISP (Speakeasy) and I discovered it does have PHP support, but no MySQL. The lack of a database appears to really limit your options when it comes to cost-effectively hosting a blog, especially when you don’t have full control of your hosting machine.

Luckily however I discovered simplePHPblog, which does not need a database as it stores data in flat text files. So far I have been pleasantly surprised by the experience of using sphpblog.

I am patiently waiting to see just how much of a problem spamming and hacking will be…

As for actually blogging, this is my first try and most likely updates will be pretty sparse after the novelty wears off. At least sphpblog significantly lowers the time cost of committing an update to the site.