I’ve had some trouble with my Habari install so I’ve switched back to WordPress - even though I love Habari, the crew and most things about it, it’s still in development and some features that I want is missing… Sadly it seems like I’m missing a couple of posts from the migration, one of them is the one about my giggle attack over the WaMu Checking Account naming…

I’ve just moved my Habari powered blog away from NearlyFreeSpeech.net to SliceHost, if everything works as planned you shouldn’t have noticed anything at all.

The reasons for my move

• One login to rule them all, NFS lets you host as many domains as you want - but you get a separate user for each and every one of them
• Be my own dictator, SH is a VPS host - ie. they let you build your own server from scratch. Demands more of you, but gives unlimited (depending on resource usage that is) freedom in return.
• Reverse Squid proxy, Squid is a cache demon to lower the load of the servers and to serve pages faster. But with rapid updates/editing it didn’t server the latest revision of the page.

Why I didn’t move

• NFS is as cheap as it gets, you literary pay pocket lint to host with them - pay for what you use.
• World class support and responsiveness - if you want some obscure Perl module installed, all you have to ask and you’ll receive (unless it breaks the system).

Sadly our town/county is dying, since I moved here some seven hundred people have left (either moved or passed away)… that’s like 100 per year, and still we have sort of a baby boom here. Just by going to the “platsbanken”, it’s where the stately job center lists available jobs… let’s just say that it isn’t quite up to Boston resumes, when it comes to listings…

Luckily those that leave for college or work usually seem to move back when it’s time to raise their kids.