Talkings of a Tyrant

I’ve been considering moving this blog from Blogsome. It is a tricky situation.

Arguments in my head for moving:

1. My own server would allow me to have complete control and maximum flexibility over my blog (Plus, a bit more prestige among the blogging community for owning my own domain). I’m a control freak in some senses after all.
2. Blogsome server has been down a lot lately. 150 instances according to Uptime since I switched to Blogsome in early November, and most of them have been in the last month.
   uptime report

Arguments in my head against moving:

1. My own server would cost money. I don’t like that. I’m miserly. My name is tyrantmizar.

   I originally considered moving to a different free blogging host like Wordpress.com or Bloggoing, but both of those are very limited in how much control I have over how my blog looks. For example, I can’t figure out how to directly edit anything like a template, etc, in either of those. I’m not willing to put up with a blog I can’t at least pretend I have control over, so both of those services are out of the question.

   If anyone does know how to edit the template in either of those sites, please email me.

2. I would lose all of this blog’s prestige. I would have to wait another month for Google to completely index my pages and get rid of the references to this blog. All of the kind links to this blog would become irrelevant.
3. It would be a pain to move, because there is no easy way to export from this blog in a format that is recognized by Wordpress. The only way I’ve discovered yet is by RSS, and in which case, all the comments are lost.

While it may look like I won’t move, there is a very good chance that I will. The trick is figuring out which host I’ll use.

Sorry. There may not be many more updates for a short while. It’s going to take some research and patience to decide.