I mentioned a few days ago that I would be moving http://www.joeb454.co.uk to point to this domain, which I have now done. I'll be removing the old wordpress hosted blog sometime in the near future as well.

I should note that all the links clicked here do correspond to http://blog.joeb454.com. However after a quick check, lets say you wanted to login, you could still visit joeb454.co.uk/wp-login and that would work just as you would expect it to

As some of you know, I recently bought a MacBook, and I realised I didn't have a page up on my .com domain, so I decided to kill 2 birds with 1 stone, and had a play with iWeb '09. The end result isn't bad, and moving the blog over to my VPS provider would mean 2 things:

1) I'd actually be using my VPS for something
2) I'd have a more fine grained control over my blog, because I would be hosting it myself. Currently this blog is hosted by wordpress.com

It could mean I'd need to upgrade my VPS package, because currently I only have 384 MB RAM on there. I guess it all depends on how much MySQL decides that it wants to take, though before upgrading I'd look into tweaking some MySQL settings to see if I can reduce the amount it needs.

Ultimately I'd like to do this just because of number 1 above. But also it would teach me some more about Apache, MySQL, possibly PHP. I may also look into changing the site at some point, possibly to a Drupal installation, but we'll have to wait and see

Any thought's on whether you think this would be a worthwhile move, or any recommendations you have on tweaking various settings on the server (it runs Ubuntu 8.04) would be fantastic!

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