hosting issues

and no, not like a party.

or maybe yes, like a party. only the party’s the blog and it’s in your head.

no actually, the party is the blog, but the issue is the venue. it’s the fact that when you look up to the url at the top of your browser right now (go ahead, i’ll wait. ok? good.), you see the address of my speakeasy home directory. which is fine and functional, but aesthetically inelegant.

what you should see is the url of my domain name, sassyass.net, which is actually currently redirected to my home directory. because when i started this way back when this was the easiest and cheapest way to put this sucker in motion. but now everyone who has links to my blog has links to the home directory, not the domain name. which is not as it should be.

i’ve looked into cheap hosting solutions, but with the lack of shell access, i’m not sure how i would set up MT. i could just try and move my existing installation en masse, but what would i do if i needed to change something?

i did sign up for (ilove)thefreewebhosting.com, which is pretty cool in that it’s, uh, web hosting. for free. i guess i can try that, but aren’t we suspicious of anything free?

on the other hand, i did start a mp3blog there, monkeySARS with a spare domain name i had hanging around, and that seems to work pretty well so far.

i guess at some point i just need to throw down and pay for something. a high price for vanity, indeed. or maybe i need to find someone with a spare linux box who’ll kindly host me for free…

Posted at August 3, 2004 1:54 PM