The Enspired Blog

I’ve been working to wind down all of my websites that were hosted with Site5 as my account was nearing its expiration. I have relocated everything to my new home with Slicehost. Site5 was a great hosting company and they lived up to their esteemed reputation for having great customer service. However, I decided that it was time to grow up a little bit in the world of Rails hosting, so I got myself a tiny “slice”. It’s been a great learning experience moving from a managed/shared hosting environment to a VPS hosting solution.

So, the upside to VPS hosting is that I have full control over my server’s configuration. This allows me to create my ideal Rails environment with only the things I need. I’ve decided for most of my applications that Lightspeed, Rails and MySQL are more than adequate. The downside is that I have full control, which leaves me to my own devices.

For this blog I decided on Mephisto since it seems to be the simplest, best supported, Rails-based blogging application available these days. I don’t know if I’ll convert my old wordpress blog content or not. To be honest, there wasn’t much valuable content there to make it worth the effort. I have comments turned off until I can install better spam filtering. I’ve had a lot to do just to get my sites fully functional, so it’s a slow process to get everything back to 100%.