I’m Back
The blog has been down for a few days. Once or twice a year I like to give my technology a break. Let the electrons spin free for a while that sort of thing.
I thought I would move the blog from bluehost to webbynode and so I've spent the past few days trying to do just that. I had high hopes for using webbynode as a low cost host where I could put my blog and then stage a Rails site or run a few experiments. After several tries rebuilding the server and trying different deploys I gave up and now I'm back to my old account.
I still think Webbynode is a great service. They make putting up a Rails app a trivial process. I don't think that running a php app (WordPress in my case) next to your Rails app is very good idea unless you move up to the larger plans which means spending a lot of money just to run a blog. If you're going to end up paying that much more you may as well keep a basic account for the blog and run a separate account for your Rails experiments.
Anyway, electron vacation is over and the site's back up. I know you missed me.
Justin Ball is a software consultant and entrepreneur with a passion for Ruby. He evolved from a C++ and .Net monkey into a python programmer and finally found Ruby. In the rare moments when he isn't writing code, talking about code or measuring his code productivity in profanity per hour, you can find him on his bike in the mountains or on the roads surrounding Cache Valley. 
