IfÂ  you're reading this, it's probably because you heard about my recent decision to move off my dedicated server and onto a WordPress blog.Â  It's been an interesting exercise shifting off your own space and onto a cookie-cutter service, which is what I did yesterday when I setup my blog on WordPress.com. Overall it was a trivial task which only took a couple of hours to do from sign-up to launch.

The downside of using a service like WordPress.com is that you're kind of bound to what they offer the general public and as a power user that can be immensely frustrating. It's no fault of WP. Their business is to cater to a broad audience on WordPress.com and if you're a power user, they offer the code for you to customize. So I'm not one to complain because they've got a great model going &amp; they're doing right by everyone.

So I was chatting with my friend David Walsh, who BTW is a really talented developer, about my migration and sharing some of my pain points. Well, here's what he said:
<blockquote>David Walsh: i can't let a brotha live on wordpress.com</blockquote>
From there, he proceeded to totally hook me up with a self-hosted WP account of my own; DNS updates and all! That was a very cool thing to do and I'm grateful for his help. This now gives me so much more flexibility to tweak things as I see fit and even dive into PHP a bit, something I've been wanting to do but haven't found the right circumstance to do it in.

This also means that I may have a chance to save the posts from my original blog software, BlogCFC. I have to say that I'll miss BlogCFC and the tweaks I made to it (some of which ended up in the software). Raymond Camden continues to really make it a great blogging platform and if I was back on a ColdFusion hosting provider, it'd be the first piece of software I'd install. Raymond also offered me BlogCFC hosting but David had already gone through a lot to set me up and I wasn't going to back out at that point. And I think I'm ready for a new challenge as well. WordPress is a different monster and it'll force me to rethink some things.

The final change you may have noticed is that the blog is now on its own subdomain. Originally, when you would venture to reybango.com, you'd see the blog. In hindsight, I really should've separated out the blog and used the main domain for something else. That's the case now with the blog residing at blog.reybango.com.