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posted @ Saturday, July 11, 2009 12:30 AM

I’ve got myself a brand spanking new VPS. w00t!

So with some help of the ‘oh so clever’ infamous Claw @ Signify I’ve got my DNS server up & running and everything seems to be going just super*.

Along with the new VPS I’ve decided to upgrade my blog from Wordpress to Subtext. Which, surprisingly, wasn’t that easy consider Wordpress doesn’t natively export to BlogML (there really should be standard between all blog engines).

Anyway, I got an export working using the BlogML project on CodePlex along with some additional hacking of the resulting XML file. So all my previous, extremely out of date, posts are back if anyone is still using ASP.NET MVC CTP’s. Ha.

As for the new blog, after some rather exhausting searching for a decent skin for my new Subtext install, I couldn’t find anything that I really liked so I’ve decided to port the Lazy Days skin by Fullahead with inspiration from Steven Harman and his Subtext port. So far so good, but as you can tell I’ve got alot more to go!

More updates to come - to the skin and to my blog that is. I, hesitantly, promise to update more often than I have been (last update January 2008!). Focus will be on the best thing to come out of Microsoft in years – ASP.NET MVC.

*Yet to fully setup hMailServer – how hard can it be? ;-)

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# re: New VPS - New Blog

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Posted by charles
on 7/11/2009 12:35 AM
Just looked at the new blog / skin in Chrome - ugh.

# re: New VPS - New Blog

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Posted by Mohamed Meligy
on 8/8/2009 3:02 AM
Hey,

Very nice theme. Looking at it from Safari for Windows now (not my primary browser). You might want to share it with some "refer back" license or so (Maybe CCC?).

Where are you hosting your VPS right now? I'm currently looking for a cost effective (in plain words: cheap) VPS hosting. It'll be great if you can recommend one.

BTW, nice blog in general. I like your posts.

Thanks.

# re: New VPS - New Blog

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Posted by charles
on 8/11/2009 9:24 PM
Hi Mohamed,

Thanks. I can't take credit for the theme itself, made by the very talented Fullahead (fullahead.org).

Did you want me to share the subtext skin port I made? I suppose I could but there is still alot of work to be done before it's what you would consider a true *skin*.

In fact, I don't know if Subtext has support for half the things I've hacked into the skin!

As for VPS hosting, I've got a CrucialParadigm Win VPS 512 - seems to be doing the trick so far! :-)

www.crucialp.com/.../windows-2008-server.php

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