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One of the factors to consider when setting up a blog – or any kind of web presence, for that matter – is how and where your site is going to be hosted. There are no shortage of web hosts out there, but the features and services on offer – not to mention the level of service – are distinctly variable, so finding the right solution can be a bit of a minefield.

Most of us start out with shared hosting – you simply rent some space on a webserver that is shared with other people. The advantage of this is firstly that it’s the cheapest and simplest way of getting going, as someone else is taking care of all the fiddly bits of looking after the feeding and watering of the boxes that your site sits on.
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For whatever reason (probably me), my Moveable Type installation has always been a little bit on the ropey side – taking forever to rebuild, XML-RPC timeouts, that kind of thing. So trying another platform has been at the back of my mind for a while. Then the MT3.0 affair blew up, and work requirements led to the acquisition of a dedicated (virtual) server, and it got to the point where I thought “why not?”

So this is Wordpress, and so far I have to say I’m extremely impressed. Installation took less than the stated five minutes, it’s extremely fast (although to be fair to MT that might be server-related), and it’ll talk quite happily to Ecto. there’s even a POP3 interface, which will be _really_ useful.

Added to which, it’s written in PHP (which I’m much more comfortable with than, say Perl), and it’s all looking promising.