Knowtown…

Last week was not a good week for the knowtown website. Twice in three days my host provider suspended my account because the scripts from my old version of Moveable Type were going haywire and creating a huge draw of bandwidth, cpu, and memory on the host servers. Apparently, there are many spammers out there that are having a field day with the older versions (2.x) of Movable Type. The first time they reactivated my account after renaming the offensive cgi script. Once I discovered this I was able to get back in to the blog and post the previous entry and back up everyones blog. The second time the host provider made it very clear that I needed to get my old version of Movable Type off their server. (I was told that if my account was suspended a third time it would be for good!).

Since I host other people’s blogs on my site I could not afford to upgrade to a newer version of Movable Type. That makes me a little frustrated because I really liked their interface and the ease of creating and modifying templates. As I was looking for new options I decided to go with Wordpress. I loved how easy it was to install but I am still finding the interface very unfamiliar and I despise the difficulty in modifying templates. I think I will eventually figure it out but right now I am just a little frustrated.

At any rate, I will be playing with it over the next few weeks and hopefully be more comfortable with it before I make my next jump to a new host provider. Once that move takes place I will be back to ecclesial dreaming. I have a lot I want to say about things…