No more webhosting

I’ve decided to stop bleeding money through web hosting. I’m currently spending $10 here, £15 there… a month and all I’m doing is blogging. These days my basic web hosting needs can be pretty much fulfilled by services from Flickr, Wordpress, and GMail. Having bought a MacBook Pro also means I have a Unix environment with me all the time and don’t need one supplied through a hosted provider.

I looked at several engines (WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, and TypePad) and you can tell by the URL which blogging engine won. WordPress seemed to provide the best bang for zero-bucks. WordPress has lots of usable features out of the box: domain hosting, quick authoring, pages, RSS everthing, and nice looking templates.

Now I need to move my old blogging content over from its customised Typo backend and ijonas.com (which is down for an unknown reason). I also need to redirect my ijonas.com email to GMail.

I guess the moral of the story is that you can get a hell of a lot for free and you needn’t look far either.