Posted: April 5th, 2007 | Author: Panagiotis Karageorgakis | Filed under: Site News | No Comments »
After giving up on ExpressionEngine would do for me what I wanted it to. After using it for some days though, I got rather disappointed from some of it’s limitations and functionality, so I switched to WordPress.
Due to the blog software change, permalinks may be broken. I’ll see if I can fix this with RewriteRules but I don’t swear this will happen.
Update: Permalinks to the articles that have been posted in the previous version are now redirecting to the correct address. The old RSS feed url is also redirecting to the new url, so users who have subscribed to the old feeds shouldn’t need to change their urls (although they’re encouraged to do so)
The bottom line is that no blog software or CMS yet has become what it should. That’s why I plan to make one the way I want it to be. More on this soon…
Posted: March 28th, 2007 | Author: Panagiotis Karageorgakis | Filed under: Personal, Site News | No Comments »
I am very glad to announce that I am done for good with the obligations that were devouring hours (or even days) of my everyday time. And I like it!. This (positive) change shall be reflected in my online presence too. For quite a long time I was longing to find some time to spare on deploying my own website/blog; but time was a leisure. Now that my life is back in it’s normal mode, I have begun the process of doing new things, and finally finishing all the unfinished tasks, and this site is one of them.
The outline of the plan is this: re-shape my company’s workflow, services, identity and re-design it’s website, and also design and deploy this very site. I have decided to opt out of the hosting business (too much of a hassle for so little profit), so I had to find a new home for my websites. This new home would be the host for this site, my company’s website as well as future websites and/or services I shall deploy.
After doing some research into the market field of web hosting globally (not only in Greece), I decided to go with (mt) Media Temple. The offer sounded superb: 100GB of storage, 1TB of traffic, RoR support (in a container), SSH access, grid infrastructure (eliminating the disadvantages of shared hosting) and other features, all for almost 150 euros per year? I’m in! This is the first site I have moved into MediaTemple, which by now (only some hours after the account has been activated) seems to run smoothly. A more detailed article about moving into MediaTemple will follow shortly (in the next couple of days hopefully).
So, my dear visitors, please bare with me while I am in the process of materializing my inner thoughts into this website. I have decided to make incremental changes to it, instead of just waiting for the final edition to publish, so you may be witnessing changes happening (hopefully) quite often. I am confident that the final version will be good enough.
Take care,
Panagiotis
