Twitter, webhosting and domains
A couple of quick, non-chemical things. Firstly, I now have a Twitter account (@BRSM_blog, as @BRSM was taken), so if you're not into RSS or just hitting F5 every ten minutes I'll tweet something when I post things from now on. I promise there will be no non-chemical updates, rants, or boring stuff. Secondly, I'm contemplating moving the blog, and probably getting a more sensible domain sometime in the next few months. The hosting I currently have is pretty basic (no PHP5, which really limits what wordpress plugins I can use) and I'm pretty close to maxing out my meagre monthly bandwidth allowance even with a fairly small number of readers and a simple layout. I'm inclined to just get some better hosting and do everything myself, as that'd be nice and easy, and I could migrate the whole site pretty quickly, but I notice a lot of people are using wordpress.com for hosting. My main concern for wordpress.com is that I don't know how easy it'd be to migrate the site over, and I think you have to pay extra in order to stay ad free, which I really, really want to do. So, fellow bloggers, what are people doing? Who's good?
Also, I'm inclined to get a more sensible/memorable domain name while I'm at it, but brsm.com, .co.uk, .net, .org etc. are all taken. I can either get something silly like brsm.xxx, brsm.mobi or brsm.asia, or get something slightly different like brsmblog.com. That's pretty memorable, right?
July 18th, 2011 - 03:01
The fee to stay add free on wordpress.com is $30 a year. First 5 years of existence of OrgPrepDaily I did not pay anything and there were no adds, I suppose they did not bother with blogs that had low access rate. Early this year I got a survey request from WordPress.com whether I was happy with their service (and unfortunately I responded that I was very happy and would gladly recommend it to others) and right the next morning the adds began appearing. So I forked out $30 because I thought it was tolerable.
Their price list is here http://en.wordpress.com/products/. You can keep your own old domain or have a new one for about $15 a year.
One thing that I really liked about wordpress.com is their spam filter – without it policing the comment section would be a huge burden
July 18th, 2011 - 04:09
I’ve noticed that I often (maybe a third of the time) get an error message (something like the server is unavailable) when I try to access this blog. Have there been technical problems recently?
July 22nd, 2011 - 13:49
Thanks for the kind comments on my (very new) blog. Yours, meantime, is cranking along, can’t wait to see more.
July 23rd, 2011 - 07:52
I tried to post on your blog but it didn’t work (preview doesn’t work either). Is there a technical problem?