So you want to write a successful blog? Or perhaps just have a successful Website that people actually visit? Lorelle reminds us just how to make your blog of interest to others.
During the past couple years I have recommended to people that they host their Drupal sites on a virtual private server (VPS) instead of a shared hosting plan. While a large number of people do not have problems running Drupal under shared hosting plans, I have always felt that there are less headaches with using a VPS to host your sites. For example, with a VPS I don't have to worry whether the shared hosting plan gives me the necessary MySQL privileges needed by Drupal (especially CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES and LOCK TABLES). From time to time, you also hear from people with "Drupal friendly" shared hosting plans eventually find that their hosting company isn't so friendly toward their Drupal site. Planet Drupal contributor, Clancy Ratliff, is one of the most recent examples for having a host provider not really happy she is using Drupal. So I often ask myself, is shared hosting for Drupal really worth the trouble?
I don't know if shared hosting is worth the trouble but a chain of events have brought me to giving shared hosting another chance for my Drupal sites. Last month, I pushed my VPS so close to the bleeding edge that it became unstable. While I was able to get my sites back online, the downtime clearly told me it was time to move my sites to a new server. While most visitors observed a performance improvement for my Drupal sites since the server migration, it's only now that I'm letting the cat out of the bag. For the past week, CMSReport.com has been under a shared hosting plan and not a VPS. I'm currently running my site using a budget shared hosting plan through my reseller site which is comparable to the hosting plans offered by GoDaddy.
I don't know how long I'll keep my site on a shared hosting plan but I am currently enjoying a break from the work, worry, and experimentation that comes with administration of a VPS. While I may go back to a VPS, I thought it would benefit some newbies and other Drupal users my experiences and thoughts on migrating my sites from a VPS back to a shared hosting plan.
This is a fantastic article found on ZDNet UK not only about open source content management systems but the issues that traditional publishers are now facing in either competing or adopting with today's Web CMS. The article is written by Mike Barrett and is titled, "CMS evolution, publishing revolution?". The author writes:
The message below was originally posted as a comment here at CMS Report. Unfortunately, the comment was posted while I was switching the site over to a new server and just before the Memorial weekend holiday here in the United States. I'm afraid very few people saw the comment so I thought it should get more attention by posting the comment onto the "front page".
The author has narrowed his choice of content management systems for his project down to Plone, Apache Lenya, and Nuxeo 5. I'm not a user of any of the CMS listed so hopefully if you're reading this post you can spend a few minutes helping him out.
If you had to choose only one of the three CMS based on his requirements for the project he describes below...which CMS (Plone, Apache Lenya, and Nuxeo 5) would you choose? Please leave your comments belows!
First, let me say thank you for everyone that stops by to reads my blog as well as seeing the latest articles I bookmark on content management systems. You people are the greatest and this has been a very fun year for me! Secondly, let me say you may not be able to read this post through the weekend.
The official release of phpBB3 is almost near with the first release candidate now available. The following is a partial list of features that are new in this version phpBB that did not exist in 2.0.x.
By golly, I have been so busy the past couple weeks that I didn't even had a chance to check out a beta of Wordpress 2.2. Now it's too late for me because Wordpress 2.2 has been officially released. Not only does this release include over 200 bug fixes, but it also has some new nifty features.
I'm currently in the process of moving CMS Report and some other sites I manage to a new VPS. The original reason for the change was to move my sites off of a legacy version of Linux (Fedora Core 2). However, I'm also making the server change because of too much bleeding edge experimentation by yours truly that has brought my server's stability into question. Believe it or not, a reboot of the server doesn't fix everything!
Those that have followed my writings (even from the WebCMSForum days) know I've spent about the past year or two dealing with an aging PC. Even the wife, who doesn't always appreciate the geek part of her husband, says it is time for a computer upgrade. When she says it's time, you know the deadline is near to order up a new computer.
For the past several years I've configured my home PCs with a dual-boot of Windows/Linux. While there are some things I don't like about Apple's propriety hardware for it's OS, the need for something different has me considering purchasing a Mac. However, as I posted at the Open Source Community, I've started to wonder if over time the desktops for Linux and the Mac won't be that much different from one another.
KDE 4.0: Why I likely won't get a Mac -Desktop Linux has an article and shapshots out on the first alpha version of KDE 4.0. The article is titled, KDE 4.0 alpha arrives!.
Features in this alpha version of KDE include:
- A new visual appearance through Oxygen (think Aqua)
Plone 3 beta 3 was released on Wednesday of this week. The announcement posted at Plone.org also invited users, administrators, and developers to help test the new software. Plone 3, built on the Zope application server, is nearing a year of development . By the time the final version of Plone 3 is released you should see the following new features included in the content management system.