Comments on: So, you found the site

By: glenn

glenn — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:46:22 +0000

Just so you know, the difference between the MT and PHP solution is in their approaches to scale. MT generates static documents that take very little effort for the web server to deliver. This means that it spends all of the time building your site up-front, when a change is made. Wordpress doesn’t spend any time up-front. Instead it builds the pages on demand. I’m not familiar with Wordpress’ caching strategy, but what this amounts to is that the 45 minutes of assembly time you see now is spread out over the requests. The upside is that changes are immediate. The downside is that if you get significant traffic, the web server might not be able to keep up with requests while it reassembles pages for each page hit.

The good news is that most of your content is probably infrequently accessed, while only the top 10 or so draw all of the attention.

By: On The Third Hand

On The Third Hand — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:22:34 +0000

Another moved to Word Press
Says Uncle, with some help from yours truly, has moved from MT to Wordpress. Seems he got a bit tired of 45 minute rebuilds. Can’t say I blame him!

By: skb

skb — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:49:47 +0000

Oh, comments work a lot faster, too.

By: skb

skb — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:49:27 +0000

Nice. Transparent conversion, too. Just how it should work.

By: Kathy K

Kathy K — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:19:41 +0000

No updating necessary.

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 02:50:17 +0000

Nah. Gonna move this to the old url.

By: jed

jed — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 02:03:15 +0000

So, do we officially update our bookmarks and blogrolls yet?

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:54:58 +0000

Testing for new pop up

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:54:05 +0000

Ah, the templates all have target = _blank. GOod catch

By: jed

jed — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:49:12 +0000

And, the “say it” button openned another browser window. Uneccessary, don’cha think? (But then I always hate it when somebody decides to open something in a new browser window.) Still.

By: jed

jed — Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:47:53 +0000

Well, since you made it so easy to find. I sometimes contemplate switching to WordPress — just don’t want to do the work yet. But yeah, the advantages to having a completely database driven site are many.

Only glitch so far (which is at your old site too) is that it’s wider than my browser window. Probably a stylesheet definition specifying something using an absolute pixel width.

I’ll reference something … see if pingbacks work.