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So with the usual fickle-mindedness, I’ve changed my blog software from Typo to Mephisto. Well, it wasn’t so much based on a whim – there were some reasons I wanted to stop using Typo: For some reason, Typo is very unstable for me on my VPS with 160MB RAM. I deploy Typo on a mongrel_cluster [...]

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Moved to Rimuhosting

In: Blogging

11 Aug 2006

If you’re seeing this, that means the new DNS settings have finally resolved and you’re being served by a plain old Mongrel server instance on my Rimuhosting VPS. It’s so much faster than before. Before you start lecturing me on running just Mongrel, let me just say that now isn’t right time to get a [...]

After being plagued with performance issues running Typo (the blog software on which this blog currently runs) on Dreamhost, I decided it was time to give in and get a VPS once again. I was previously with Linode.com (they have a great control panel where you can drop in the distro you want – still [...]

It was a slow day so I decided to cross one thing off my to-do list, and that’s getting Typo installed and migrating from WordPress. I’ve been looking at getting Typo installed for awhile ever since I saw (and liked) its AJAX-y comments form, plus Typo 4 being just released did help. The install went [...]