{"id":349,"date":"2004-05-30T16:14:06-04:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-31T00:14:06+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=349"},"modified":"2004-05-30T16:14:06-04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-31T00:14:06+00:00","slug":"movablewordtypepress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2004\/05\/30\/movablewordtypepress\/","title":{"rendered":"MovableWordTypePress"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been considering switching weblogging software recently. MovableType<\/a> 2.6 has been good enough<\/cite> for a while, but it’s stagnated, even with the release of version 3.0. (There’s also the whole freedom issue<\/a>, although that’s been less of a factor in my thinking.)<\/p>\n\n

I’m most interested in WordPress<\/a>. However, it relies completely on PHP, which I have an extreme (and perhaps undeserved) dislike for. Call me crazy (you’re crazy!<\/q>) but I prefer to not introduce a lot of CPU, RAM, network and database overhead just to serve what is, 99.9% of the time, static content; I’m also not a big fan of the single point of failure. Disk space is cheap: my web hosting provider<\/a> has increased the allocation given to every user by over 150% since I signed up less than a year ago. And I’ve never had an HTML-based site go completely offline due to a typo in a template; sure, comment posting or entry searching may not work for a bit, but the content of the site still exists.<\/p>\n\n

What I’d really like is a form of funky caching<\/cite><\/a>, where pages are generated only when they (or their associated resources) change. A request to view any page would retrieve the HTML source directly from disk, not go through the page generator or even a script that redirects to the page.<\/p>\n\n

So, pending a change of heart, I’m going to stay with MovableType 2.6. To slightly paraphrase Weird Al Yankovic<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n

You’re sort of everything I ever wanted
\nYou’re not perfect, but I love you anyhow
\nYou’re the software that I always dreamed of
\nWell, not really, but you’re good enough for now.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>

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