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New Home, The Aftermath

Brad — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:56:30 +0000

Well, the dust is settling after the domain move… it has been fairly painless. I’m waiting for my domain to be transferred to Bluehost, but other than that things are pretty much done. The change in response time as a result of moving to Bluehost is incredible. Now I just need to get off my ass and blog more often, eh?

New Home For bradrowley.net

Brad — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 05:49:22 +0000

I am in the middle of moving bradrowley.net from godaddy.com to bluehost.com. Godaddy is really good for low-cost domain name services; this is what they are best known for. I moved my blog to Godaddy for hosting about a year and a half ago. The site was ok speed-wise, but the performance really degraded over time. I finally figured out why.

Godaddy (and many other low cost hosting companies) host multiple sites on one server. This is referred to as multihoming. That’s usually not a problem… but it can be when over 3,800 different sites are hosted on one server! Well, that makes the decision to relocate the site very easy.

As a result, you may notice a few things that don’t work quite right… please bear with me while I clean things up.

A Popularity Context

Brad — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:03:44 +0000

When I started writing my blog(s), I did so mainly because I found it to be a great learning method. After all, you can’t just ramble on about a subject without having some level of knowledge about it… otherwise you just wind up looking like an idiot. I still apply that line of though to my writing. However, I have recently become more interested in the ‘blogosphere’ as whole. I want to share what I have learned with more people, perhaps inspire others and maybe even discover that I’m not that different from other people.

I found a great blog post over at blog of Jared Prins, a colleague of mine. He has summarized a big list of traffic building tips from several different blogging pros. Some of great tips I found helpful are:

Post on weekdays because there are more readers… and post on weekends because there are fewer new posts. Basically, just post regularly!
It’s not enough to allow others to comments/discuss on your blog; you need to read and comment on other blogs as well, including your link (of course).
Learn enough to be an expert in your field.

There is a lot more in Jared’s post… head on over and read it. I’m going to be busy implementing some of his tips.

Jeez, and I though popularity contests ended with high school.