Ode to WordPress
I have really enjoyed my blogging experience to date. I have installed WordPress many times in the past, but someone else set the site up. When my friend Matt built my hockey team website (tnt-hockey.com) with WordPress, I figured it was time to learn how to USE WordPress (You know this if you have been following the site for more than 9 days!).
Today I was chatting with Matt and he was complaining about how Godaddy’s web hosting service kind of sucked for WordPress. Things like ftp uploads did not set permissions correctly on his files and permalink redirects taking 3+ hours to change.
I have a GoDaddy virtual server running CentOS (which effectively is my own Linux server on the Internet). I offered to let Matt use my server for his blog. I did this because he is a friend; it will not cost me anything; he turned me on to WordPress; and he did build a pretty awesome hockey site. Read more…