Writer's block, an owner's guide: Off topic: Movable Type, and site5 hosting
So, the move to the new server went smoothly. There were things about setting my sites up with Site5 that I needed to look for in the knowledge base; and most of them were actually there. There were some things I didn’t find there, so I searched the community forum; and I found recent discussions of my topics. So Site5 are scoring over my old people in having some sort of knowledge base, and in encouraging an active community of users.
But that is just the extras. The core is that I get all the services I was using before, but for less money. I also get a truckload of other services that I like having available to me, for no particular reason except that they make me feel like I’m being treated like a competent power user.
And at the center of the core, the pearl, the real reason I chose site5 out of a few contenders, is the consistent positive feedback from their existing users that I found when I spent some time looking around the web for comment. They don’t actually provide Movable Type, although they do have other blogging packages installed; but installing it myself was not a problem. It works better at site5 than it did at the old place. Just as one example, it can find sendmail some of the time.
Shall I stay? Too early to say, but I have a solid, comfortable feeling that I’ve not been used to over recent years.
Today, just as all of this is settling down, just as I’m about to do some serious writing again, the Movable Type people bring out an upgrade. Have they no concern for their customers? I don’t want to play with software! I’ve been programming since before there were PCs and tonight I want to do something else. And yet…
Ok, let’s play.
The emphasis is on – actually I don’t think there is anything else – a code clean-up with “a significant number” of improvements and “more than a hundred” further improvements. Don’t ask me about the math, but I did read the changelog and the new version sounded like something worth having. Just being able to create a new blog without having all the dates in Czech (historical note: really, that’s how it was under MT 3.15) – that alone is an improvement in my quality of life which I must have NOW instead of writing the planned article about writer’s block.
So I installed the upgrade. And I have not tested it. I am writing this at 8:23pm and let’s just see whether it posts or not.
Afternote: it looks fine so far…
After-afternote. Wait: I created a new blog and the default language for dates is still Czech. I thought I’d seen in the changelog that that was fixed. Hmmm.
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