My reader may have noticed that I was down for a couple of weeks. I had some sort of networking problem that was beyond my meager networking skills. Everything looked fine in my setup, but the site wasn't visible for some odd reason. Meanwhile, while my site was down, I'd signed up with dreamhost for unrelated reasons. It hit me that I should just move my site out to dreamhost, and so I did (applause).

While I loved the flexibility of running the site out of my house, moving to a hosting service does have advantages:

• I save a lot of money on DSL charges, because I no longer need a static IP address
• I no longer worry about my DSL connection, and thus my site, being down, and thereby causing my reader to have to wait for new content
• Being offsite, and in a hosting facility, my priceless content is (theoretically) protected from harm (of course, I'll still back it up locally)

I still have a couple of loose ends to tie up. My semi-dynamic content (the Google referrals, and SpringViz download counter) is broken until I get the scripts running again, and I think I'm going to add caching to gemcast because dreamhost seems to serve my content at a more, shall we say, relaxed pace than my old setup at home.