A Site Reborn
by Cyberin on Oct.12, 2009, under General
If you are reading this post right now, it’s for one of three reasons:
- You saw my new post on the old podlogs site and clicked the link (probably the most likely)
- You already knew about this site from the couple of times I’ve left comments linking to this site rather than podlogs on accident (done that about 20 times or so)
- You searched for “Crazy, Homosexual Monkey Sex” in google. (Not very likely…but now that it’s here…I’m sure it’ll work in a few days…)
As much as I liked PodLogs (props to a really great service), I just wanted my own domain name and site again so I could edit whatever I wanted and make it look just how I want. The freedom that having my own site provides is just something I realized I need after being with a free host for a while.
Some of you may or may not know, but I have run my own hosting company for almost 6 years…sadly I’ve recently had to shut it down do to lack of time and…well…lack of customers because of the lack of time. So rather than hosting everything myself on my own servers, I decided to go with @AnMiTh who runs an awesome EVE hosting service over at Lonetrek.ws. He’s got really cheap prices (and you can pay in either cash, or ISK) and a great service…and since I’ve been a host for 6 years…I don’t say that lightly…I’m hard to please when it comes to hosting providers. If you are looking for a place to call your own for you blog…please check out Lonetrek…you won’t regret it!
Well, since I’m in a linking, talking about other people mood…I guess I’ll mention that I’ve decided to steal some ideas from Casiella. About a month ago he made a post on his blog about some excellent Wordpress Plugins…which I’ve already installed on the site here. I’ve still got a lot more to do…but I’ve got enough done to make myself feel like I’m ready to launch the site (hence the reason I’m writing this post).
I still need to redo all my Tags and edit some links in previous posts, as well as getting everyone to change their links/rss feeds to the new site. (hint hint: if you are reading this…you can change your link to http://handsoff.myloots.com and rss feeds to http://handsoff.myloots.com/feed)
Hopefully everyone will enjoy the new site as much as I know I will…be on the lookout for some good changes in the near future…and a new style of posting category sometime this week!
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October 12th, 2009 on 8:41 am[...] taken the liberty of making a short intro post about the move on the new site, so make sure you read that…and then update all your links, [...]
October 12th, 2009 on 8:25 am
Yeah, I’d wondered a bit after seeing this URL in several places. And glad the post helped, I didn’t post it just out of boredom!
October 12th, 2009 on 8:36 am
WOW, that was a quick response…haven’t even started the “moving post” on the podlogs site
October 12th, 2009 on 9:13 am
OPML updated too.
October 12th, 2009 on 3:06 pm
Nice new look and site. I’ve updated my blogroll with the new URL.
October 12th, 2009 on 4:43 pm
Thanks
Hopefully it’ll look even better soon…still a bit more work to do on it!
October 13th, 2009 on 2:07 am
Got the update, just now getting around to responding. Great layout!
October 13th, 2009 on 4:37 pm
I like the new look, and the domain is genius.
October 13th, 2009 on 5:58 pm
Do not google video “Crazy, Homosexual Monkey Sex”. Don’t ask why, just…don’t do it. You’ll never look at those cute little simians the same way again, I promise you =/.
Also, updated my linkage too. Liking the new layout amigo.
o7,
-Aiden
October 13th, 2009 on 9:46 pm
Very nice look. Have updated your link into my blog roll. Gratz on new site.
October 13th, 2009 on 10:14 pm
Thanks for all kind comments everyone, I’m looking forward to messing with the design a bit more
October 13th, 2009 on 10:54 pm
Glad to see you made the transition gracefully. Been keeping an eye on developments after I ferreted out the domain name, since I am a sneaky bastard like that. Digging the look and had your link fixed just before you went live with the post on Podlogs
October 15th, 2009 on 7:21 am
Yeah, took me long enough didn’t it
lol