December 14th, 2006

Mephisto

Those who know me know that I’ve been struggling with what software to run this blog on for some time now. Like any self-respecting geek I tend to lean towards writing something myself, unfortunately something always comes up and I end up with some half-assed attempt which only contains 50% of the needed functionality. I’ve therefore decided to give Mephisto a try. I’ve been following it for some time now, and it seems to do everything I need it to do. My only concern is that it will crash and burn on a shared host just like Typo did, but I’m crossing my fingers that it’ll stay up.

I believe I’ve gotten everything migrated over from the Typo install, if I missed anything please let me know. Hopefully I can now focus on writing blog posts, as opposed to blog engines.



August 15th, 2006

Typo the Memory Hog

Like many people I have been bit many times by my FCGI sockets suddenly disappearing on TextDrive. With no real indication in the logs as to what was going on I turned to the development community and within 10 minutes had a great link to a blog post describing the fact that Typo is still a memory hog and is constantly going over the memory usage limits for TextDrive.

Thanks to the tips from Steve Longdo I have attempted to trim down my Typo instance a bit by removing all unused sidebar components. We’ll see if this does the trick, if not I may be making the switch to Mephisto. As always thanks for your patience as I work through these administrative headaches.