As for *why* I’m doing all of this, especially since I’m pretty brand loyal when you get down to it, and Pair hasn’t exactly screwed me over over the years…. well, I want to play with some toys. Specifically, wordpress, which I’m considering switching to for the bulk of my blogging. While I could certainly do this with Pair, they don’t make it that easy and while their low level services are affordable, the pricing skyrockets if you want to play with php or cgi - things it really wouldn’t kill me to work with a bit more.

As it just so happens, my yearly billing cycle with pair is up in a few weeks, so if this pans out, I just won’t renew with them. And if hostican blows? I switch the DNS back and avail myself of their 30 day refund.

::some time passes::

Wow. I have a working wordpress blog, and I’ve exported about 10 months worth of LJ posts directly into it. Now all I have to do is customize the theme so it looks like my site and not a generic template. (It’s about the time of year when I start thinking about re-skinning the site anyway.) Also, need to figure how to post using Semagic (which I have become pretty fond of).

Would you believe less than a year ago I was still hand coding all of my blog posts *and* the rss feed that went along with it? This is much nicer.