My new hosting provider is Nearly Free Speech and I am now running WordPress.

One benefit of Wordpress over Typo is the maturity of its plugins and regular releases of the software itself. Even without much knowledge of php or Wordpress internals, I think I’ve been able to get my site set up to behave the way I like. I’m using Ultimate Tag Warrior 3 which let me set up the UI side of tags. I wish it were a little easier to specify tags in mtsend which allows me to use vim to edit my posts instead of using the web interface; I guess it wouldn’t be entirely clear how to hook into xmlrpc.php.

I’m thus far very happy with Nearly Free Speech’s hosting. In addition to having more freedom in how I lay out my content (including an entire MySQL process for myself), I have the freedom to manage my own DNS, ssh shell access, and they even make it easy to hook up to a log parsing front-end, awstats.

Now that I have a framework for publishing in order, maybe it’d be time to write something.