With the economy being what it is, etc. I decided hosting with Joyent just wasn’t really worth it. They’re a great cloud provider, but for small time stuff – like my blog – it just didn’t make sense. I started with them a while back but I think they’ve out-grown me.

So I looked around for an alternative hosting provider. I like Heroku, but its read-only file system provides for some unique challenges. AWS (Amazon Web Services) are okay but can be expensive, although the first year is free. I’m already paying for a GitHub account and realized that I could just host a Jekyll website on my GitHub Pages. So that’s what I’ve done.

I’m using Octopress, and I’m pretty happy. I was going to write my own blogging software but then realized I really don’t have the time to do that. And why, since other smart people have done it! Expect more to come in the future. I’ve copied my most popular articles over. It’s hard to beleive I’ve been writing this blog since 2008! So I’ve heavily culled the article set.