Moved to subtext
Around 3AM yesterday I had a nasty surprised when I tried to post something to my site, it was down. Not just the blog, but the whole site.
A quick check with my host turned out that my blog was using 100% CPU for a long period of time, so they had to remove the site. I have some issues with why they didn't bother to notify me when they did it, but that is another matter. After I spoke with them the site went back up, but the blog was down.
That was 10 hours ago or so, and since then I was trying to move everything that I had to SubText as quickly as I can. I have a lengthy post detailing the procedure, but for now all you need to know that I am on SubText, that I think that I like it, and that is it.
Now I am going to do something interesting.
You can expect some problems with the site until I beat it back to working shape.
Comments
Did you really had to migrate to SubText?
Yes, the other option was to remove content from dasBlog.
It kept demanding more and more resources.
Wow, that was quite an involved process. Were there issues on the Subtext side that could be improved that would have made this easier?
I will post my thought about it in the mailing list.
I will post my thought about it in the mailing list.
So dasBlog is far less scalable?
I will miss dasBlog a lot; here are few changes I can think of right now:
When you click on the categories or on the archives, you don't get the posts but just the link (then you have to open them one by one)
The posts urls are different: ayende.com/.../From-DasBlog-To-SubText.aspx is ok, but for some reason it is often a number instead (eg http://www.ayende.com/Blog/archive/2007/02/02/6898.aspx )
I preferred the design of dasBlog :D
Is there any anti-spam feat?
If any of these can be solved by changing some settings, I would be thankful :)
Pierre, I can answer some of your questions;
The category page can be made to display posts. I can't remember what the change is at the moment but it can be done.
The number in the URL is just a sequential ID number assigned to the db row for each post... subText has the ability to have "Friendly" URLs that you can assign yourself or have subText auto-magically generate. The resultiung URL is still different from dasBlog but that is merely due to design differences from the start.
You can read more about the EntryName here;
http://subtextproject.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=150&pageID=23&pageName=
What in particular about dasBlog's design do you prefer over subText, if I may ask?
subText has moderation capabilities and we utilize Akismet for spam-catching, as well as Visible and Invisible CAPTCHA...
One more thing;
Oren, the REGEX currently being used for URL Validation is kicking back my URL, http://vernsblog.thegillfamily.us:8180/.
Here is an update, via Steve Harman, http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2006/12/13/DogfoodingSubtextvNext.aspx#296, that will allow URLs with port assignments;
^(https?://)?([\w-]+.)+[\w-]+([\w-./?%&=:]*)?$
Gonna send a message to the ML to insure this is updated throughout the code.