Given a few difficulties that I’ve managed to stumble across in the whole process of trying to self-host my blog, I have decided to abandon hosting the actual blog on my home server for now (mainly because the connection can sometimes go down for quite a while when I’m not around) and have instead finally bought a slightly better package from 1&1 to host the blog on here for now.

In the process, I decided to try yet another different blogging system, and in the course of looking found this one I’m writing on now – Serendipity. At first glance it actually looks ideal as a blogging platform, with lots of usable plugins and easy to configure. This, combined with the ‘Embedded?’ option which shows pure content if you were running it inside a larger CMS – I haven’t tried it yet, but it sounds exciting… if you’re a sad fuck.

The downside to doing all this, besides not being able to host the thing myself, is that it looks like importing databases into the 1&1 interface is going to be awkward, so until I can get easy access to my server again (which, judging by London, means when I’m not in the house) I’m going to struggle to move the old Wordpress blog across in an easy way. What will probably end up happening is I’ll just place a permanent link to the ‘Old Blog’ if I can’t find a workable solution before I go back to Egypt.