The new version of blosxom came out a few days ago. For those
who don't know what blosxom is, you can refer to an earlier blog
entry of mine.
There are not really new features compared to the last release candidate
version, but it just seems to run faster, with a more compact perl code (even
more unreadable! ;-)).
The core of blosxom is actually so simple but at the same time so great
(because it can be widely customized) that this is what I think makes
blosxom's real strength.
On the other hand, the list of plugins is growing like crazy and
you have tons of new features for your weblog all the time.
That's what is so great about the GNU Public license, there are
so many people working on this that the product never stops growing in
stability and in functionalities...
I have requested netcraft to
monitor the server which is hosting my website.
They can do that for free and the information they provide is actually quite
useful, drawing a graph of uptime and giving information about the version of
the http server running, etc.
The only constraint is that you have to request the information on a regular basis, or else, they'll stop polling the server.
I will use it to check whether rcthost, my hosting server, is reliable
enough, although I already have my opinion on this...
There have just been too many problems recently such as wrong data on the
statistics, which can lead to exceeding your quota on bandwidth, compelling
you to upgrade your account, unless you want to leave your website inactive
for the rest of the month, frequent reboots, license of the cpanel expiring,
preventing you from managing your website, etc.
Anybody has a good suggestion for a hosting server, please let me know... I'm looking for a Unix/Linux server allowing ssh and all the usual stuff (php, MySql, Advanced Guestbook, etc.).
