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Blogging Host: Slip!

If you can see this, congratulations: your ISP is pretty fast at picking up DNS changes.

You see, as much as I enjoyed the maintenance free-hosting of my blog on TypePad, they screwed me one time too many with some of their “internal” crap. Like having a server-based XML-RPC feature broken for just about half a year. And then preventing thousands of users from leaving comments on my blog – not to mention all TypePad-hosted blogs – with an overagressive black listing system. When pressed on that – and when I requested a personal whitelist to minimize the damage – I was told “we’re working on it, but it’s for your best interest”. Right. Having everyone you work with be unable to leave comments for you is for my best interest. Nothing against Six Apart – I’m still using MovableType – but I’ve had enough of that crap… so I moved over to DreamHost and installed MT on my own there.

Y’all shouldn’t notice a change – if you do please let me know! – but I’m a happier mammal, in spite of taking most of Saturday to move it. In fact, I think I want some dinner…