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Comments on: Making the switch https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/03/26/making-the-switch/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:38:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/03/26/making-the-switch/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:38:03 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/03/26/making-the-switch/#comment-117 Oh, yeah, PHP and MySQL are required for WordPress, and that was a determinate in host selection. NFS includes one process in the basic plan if you ask for it.

PERL doesn’t require it, so Greymatter didn’t use it, opening up a wider range of hosts.

I’ve noticed that some people, especially those that like to rearrange their sites every few months, spend a lot of time “tweaking” MT.

]]> By: Len Cleavelin https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/03/26/making-the-switch/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:23:27 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/03/26/making-the-switch/#comment-114 Not that it really matters now (since I’m permanently retired from blogging), but does WordPress require some sort of database support (like MySQL) on the back end?he

In my case, I chose Greymatter because it didn’t require a database back end (because the peculiarity of my web hosting plan is that I have to pay extra for MySQL support, and I didn’t feel like paying for that). When Karen gets back from Lotus Land and sees the mention of Greymatter in your post I expect her to kvetch a bit at that mention (for some reason Greymatter and her never really got along…). 🙂

IIRC, Movable Type requires MySQL support too, and had the reputation as reqiring near wizardly skills to configure and run, both of which factors steered me away from that.

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/03/26/making-the-switch/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:40:31 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/03/26/making-the-switch/#comment-90 I have to do some complaining about the world before I get back to it.

]]> By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/03/26/making-the-switch/comment-page-1/#comment-89 Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:48:59 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/03/26/making-the-switch/#comment-89 Thanks for the summary, Bryan. I’m bookmarking this post in case I switch someday, or in case someone else needs a basic outline of the options and the choices to be made.

I would never recommend to anyone, techno-geek or not, that he or she hand-code a blog. My site was up and running before I started blogging; I already had a lot of tools around, and everything else I needed could be done in a few editor macros and a bit of JavaScript. At every point, it was easier for me to enhance the existing site than to move to a blogging service or (heaven forfend) develop a “real” blogging tool from scratch. The main downside of my current “system” (I use the word very loosely) is that there’s not really a back end; everything is served as pre-coded HTML files and expands itself client-side using JavaScript. In other words, “there’s no there there.” Of course I would never advise a client to take this approach; it’s legacy code for me.

Having used the hosted WordPress interface on wordpress.com for a while, I like it well enough. It’s at least no worse than Blogger, and so far it hasn’t given me even a moment’s trouble. If I ever make the switch, I will probably do much the same thing you did: create a new site on my existing NearlyFreeSpeech account, install WordPress there, and resume blogging, leaving the old site in place rather than attempting to import my very nonstandard format.

I look forward to your post on moving the blogroll.

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