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On The Move

by Bryan

First Draft has a new home at TypePad: first-draft-blog.typepad.com.

Their old host blames First Draft for the outages that they have been experiencing, where as a competent tech would have noticed the recent surge in spam clogging the “tubes.” There were “irreconcilable differences”, hence the move.

A hint to hosting companies – you sell bandwidth, so it behooves you to have a supply available. If you don’t have the resources and expertise to operate your business become an American Enterprise Institute fellow, because everyone else expects you to actually be able to do your job.

Hosting blogs can be a lucrative business if they don’t take off and become popular.  If you host them, you need to read them and spot the ones that getting popular.  Your server software provides the statistics to spot the trends, so you shouldn’t be blind-sided.

2 comments

1 ellroon { 01.15.07 at 11:32 am }

Thanks for catching this. Saw the jokes about ferrets and chinchillas on Eschaton comments but didn’t know what it meant.

Going to fix my link right now.

2 Bryan { 01.15.07 at 4:26 pm }

There is a lot of “in humor” and assumed knowledge on blogs. I knew they were having problems, and I have been shoveling more that my share of spam lately, including multiple comments containing a forty plus link post.

I don’t want to tighten up any more than I have by shutting down comments on old posts and moderating first time commenters.