It’s really a point of principle, rather than anything else. I have to fork out a chunk of money each year for hosting leyton.org, and part of that is to cover the bandwidth that is used. Whilst XCalibre are cheap for the UK, in the grand scheme of things I’m seeing better offers out there, [...]
I’m so fed up of battling spam, sitting waiting for rebuilds, and all sorts of other hassles that other MovableType users might recognise, that I’m finally giving up and moving over to WordPress. So big changes are afoot here at leyton.org. Watch this space, as the site is tweaked. There’s a lot of background work necessary [...]
I’m giving FeedBurner a tryout to better manage the RSS/XML/Atom feeds at leyton.org. Aggregators (well, those that are pulling the index.xml files) will probably show all stories as updated, but in due course - and with fingers crossed - there are some features I’m hoping will prove a bit more useful for readers as well [...]
It’s a bit scary, but I’ve just had to buy a load more disk space, and a load more bandwidth to ensure leyton.org doesn’t overrun on capacity at xcalibre. They’re nice folk, but my kind words don’t stop them sending me terse reminders that I’ve overstepped my account limits. Since dropping in statcounter, it seems I [...]
I’ve mentioned before that I sometimes get a whole lot of comment spam. Today I had a good 80 spam comments pummel the website, but the new version of MovableType and MT Blacklist has done a remarkable job of catching - and withholding from publication - comment spam. Now a significant nail in the coffin [...]
At last I’ve bitten the bullet and updated leyton.org to Movable Type v3.1. I had been planning on porting across to WordPress (as at labtastic.org), but given a mySQL DB is required behind the scenes, and there’s the nice security of .html files under the hood for MT, I figured I’d give the latest version ago. [...]
