Sometimes I hate the Internet
Oct. 21st, 2013 02:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rainwatersparkMy blog (RS) is down. Argh. I've had MySQL problems with it on and off for a while now, but usually they could be resolved by refreshing the page. Now, though...I mean, it's a problem with my host, so it'll probably get resolved...eventually. But this might end up being the final nail in the coffin for my website. Maybe.
I've flirted before with the idea of transferring RS to Wordpress (and actually have the URL saved, in fact). The reason for is that Wordpress is more secure and shinier-looking. The reason against is that I've invested a lot of time in coding my own blog, and it feels nice to have something you built up from scratch and have 100% control over, you know? (Also, if I switch to a Wordpress.com host, I can no longer code my own website's layouts, and that's kind of a relief but also a big bummer.)
But at the same time, I'm becoming less and less inclined to keep troubleshooting my code. Web coding changes so rapidly and so dramatically that if it isn't your career, it's pretty difficult to keep up with. (Heck, my blog code has apparently been outdated for some time and I should've switched over to PHP5/Object-Oriented PHP, except it made my head hurt.) I still like coding. But honestly, at this point, I feel that I might be better off investing my time in other things. Maybe someday, if I'm curious, I'll finally get the hang of PHP/MySQL5. But it's also nice to have the security and lack of downtime that Wordpress offers.
I've flirted before with the idea of transferring RS to Wordpress (and actually have the URL saved, in fact). The reason for is that Wordpress is more secure and shinier-looking. The reason against is that I've invested a lot of time in coding my own blog, and it feels nice to have something you built up from scratch and have 100% control over, you know? (Also, if I switch to a Wordpress.com host, I can no longer code my own website's layouts, and that's kind of a relief but also a big bummer.)
But at the same time, I'm becoming less and less inclined to keep troubleshooting my code. Web coding changes so rapidly and so dramatically that if it isn't your career, it's pretty difficult to keep up with. (Heck, my blog code has apparently been outdated for some time and I should've switched over to PHP5/Object-Oriented PHP, except it made my head hurt.) I still like coding. But honestly, at this point, I feel that I might be better off investing my time in other things. Maybe someday, if I'm curious, I'll finally get the hang of PHP/MySQL5. But it's also nice to have the security and lack of downtime that Wordpress offers.
