andymroczblogkowski

I know blogging about blogging is, like, totally cliché, but this is blogging about blog installation, which is, like, totally different.

I haven’t played with any web technologies in a few years. All I have is a vague recollection of installing and configuring MovableType, and I slightly less vague recollection of it being a headache. I’m not bashing MovableType in particular. Setting up any sort of web application on a remote web host without really simple administration tools is a non-trivial task. Or so I thought.

I’ve been with csoft.net for a bunch of years now. I originally found them because they had shell access and secure IMAP. They cater to security-conscious people who more or less know what they’re doing. Great. I more or less knew what I was doing, at the time. But, times, they are a changin…

Like I said I hadn’t touched any web software, set up MySQL, or hacked php for several years and I was so keen on going through it all again. So I went looking around for hosts with fancy “one-click” installs and the like. After a hour or so of research, I came up with a few possibilities but decided to sleep on it before I pulled the trigger.

The next day, while eating quesadilla, I decided to give the manual WordPress installation a go, despite my previous reservations.  Mexican food tends to inspire me.  It’s my spinach.

So, I ssh’d to my web host, downloaded the tarball, copied it over to my web space, and clicked through the setup right in my browser.  I had to set up a new MySQL db, which I also did right through my host’s web interface.  I did not read any instructions.  I was up and running in 5 minutes, with a one quarter of a quesadilla remaining.

Bravo.