…or 4.0, by now? I dunno…there have been a few iterations at this point…
As all two of you may have noticed, the blog has been effectively MIA the past few months. I’m hoping to change that and get back to posting more regularly, now that my schedule has kinda evened out at school, but also now that I’ve shifted the blog off of a server I’m running onto something a bit more professional, hosted by GoDaddy.
Since moving to Marshall, I’ve been trying to run the site on a Raspberry Pi, a super cheap Linux-based computer that is powered by a cellphone processor and is, thus, quite energy efficient. The problem, I found, was that a). it’s slower than I want it to be, and b). its limited version of Linux couldn’t reliably handle the database that this site relies on (hence the “Error Establishing Database Connection” that kept on showing up the past few weeks).
Rather than build a new Linux-based computer, I’m paying for off-site hosting now. We’ll see how this goes, but the performance is already leaps and bounds better than anything I’d built the past few generations. Hopefully, keeping the site up-and-running more reliably will also make it easier for me to post things on a more regular basis. As always, of course, the blog has been more of an outlet for me (and occasionally Brooke), so I’m not trying to garner additional web traffic or readership or anything…
…I just want it to work… 🙂
I’d given up.
Never give up! Never surrender!!