If you can read this, you are viewing my site at its new home on DreamHost‘s servers. Congratulations!

I debated switching my site off the server in my basement for a long time before finally getting fed up and doing it. The reliability was terrible, of course, but at least I was certain that things were relatively secure (as I was the one securing them). I know DreamHost has had their own security issues, but overall I don’t think the risk is too bad. Besides, knowing about the cleartext password thing doesn’t make it better, but at least I can plan around it to minimize my own risk.

In the end, I decided to go with DreamHost because despite their flaws, they seem like a genuinely cool company. They are employee-owned, green, run Linux, offer shell access, allow user configuration of .spamassassin and .procmail files (so my mail continues as always), have better service (from what I can tell) than other hosting companies I’ve been with, and are pretty inexpensive to boot.

So yeah, I guess we’ll see how this goes.

In related news, during the moving process I switched my blog from PSG (which I am a developer of), to WordPress (which I am not). I’ve been debating this for a while now, since being forced to play with WordPress at work, and all the community-supported and developed plugins and other eye-candies finally cinched it for me. I feel bad, and hope that I’ll still hack on PSG from time to time, but honestly don’t think that will happen too much. No need, and all, y’know?

Here’s the export script I used to get all my posts out of PSG. It’s highly tailored to my own needs, but as it’s conceivable that someone else will one day find a use for it, I’m keeping it available. I’d say, “Enjoy!”, but then I’d feel even more guilty, for not only dumping PSG on my own site but helping others do it, too.

So, poke around, look at the changes, and let me know what you think! Especially let me know of any bugs you find.

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