Spontaneous Monotony

Well, although the appearance hasn’t changed at all, this blog is now hosted on Wordpress.com. You may wonder why I’ve done this. There are several advantages actually:

• No need to manually upgrade software
• Servers automatically backed up, and load-balanced. Much less chance of downtime
• No bandwidth constraints
• Other such things

With the exception of category feeds (only affects the Planet Wikimedia aggregator) no links have changed at all. The category feeds have changed from http://davidarussell.co.uk/category/wikimedia (or whatever) to http://davidarussell.co.uk/tag/wikimedia (or whatever).

I just discovered why the site was taking so long to load. When backing up (for a potential move to MT) I had made the front page display 1000 posts (I was fiddling with templates to get htaccess redirects). I hadn’t changed it back to the usual 10 when I restored Wordpress. Like I say, oops