{"id":1273,"date":"2005-12-06T10:42:25","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T18:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/12\/06\/time-for-technological-change\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:45:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:45:44","slug":"time-for-technological-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/12\/06\/time-for-technological-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for Technological Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at a blogging software crossroads. Currently I use Movable Type Version 2.661 (the free version), though I&#8217;ve not updated the software (don&#8217;t have the technical knowledge). I have a hosting package that costs $20 a year for 100 megs of space, plus other benefits. But space is the issue. My blog currently uses 64 megabytes, the accumulation of 28 months of blogging. Oh, and for some reason, I am no longer receiving notification by email of new comments, though I have that preference turned on. I turned it off, rebuilt all files, and turned it back on and rebuilt. Still not working.<\/p>\n<p>I think I have a pretty good hosting deal, but Husband doesn&#8217;t. He&#8217;s got a special friendly arrangement, though, so I don&#8217;t know if his expectations are realistic. His arrangement is something like 500 megs of space and uber-gigs of bandwidth for something like $60 a year. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve briefly researched services like Typepad. I love the bells and whistles. The thing is, to keep my url means paying for the fanciest package. And I need server space for other documents that are not blog-related. I emailed Typepad and asked if this was part of any of their packages but never got a reply.<\/p>\n<p>What to do, what to do? I&#8217;m not technically adept at all, aside from butchering HTML and CSS for my own simple purposes. I did use WordPress once for a now-defunct blog, but a friend set that up. The nice thing about WP is it takes very little space. But can one import entries from another blog? If I switched to WP (or to Blogger, Bloxsom, Typepad, etc.), I&#8217;d want to move the entire blog. That&#8217;s moot, though, since I don&#8217;t know how to install this stuff anyhow.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I have Flickr, I don&#8217;t need space for images (another space hog). For images that aren&#8217;t my own photos, or that I&#8217;ve downloaded, I&#8217;ve reduced their file size to the minimum possible. They now constitute 2.4 megs of server space used, and I&#8217;m being very judicious about adding more.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be interested in your feedback. I&#8217;m currently at 74% of my disk space, and I get these annoying warnings whenever I hit 80 or 90%. In summary, my wishlist is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>keep my domain name (ideally keep the blog address exactly as it is)\n<li>have extra server space for other html documents and the current image file\n<li>if I switch to another publishing software, it must be able to import the old blog entries\n<li>if I switch software, it must be non-geek user friendly &#8212; or I need a geek guardian angel willing to handle installation and maintenance\n<li>comment notification by email\n<li>a reasonable price (though I haven&#8217;t defined &#8220;reasonable&#8221; yet because it is in part negotiated with Husband)<\/ul>\n<p>Ideas, anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at a blogging software crossroads. Currently I use Movable Type Version 2.661 (the free version), though I&#8217;ve not updated the software (don&#8217;t have the technical knowledge). I have a hosting package that costs $20 a year for 100 megs of space, plus other benefits. But space is the issue. 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