fettig.net

I should mention that as part of reworking the site I spent some time
investigating Wordpress.  I have a
WordPress weblog set up on my laptop for Hep testing, and I like the
admin interface a lot.  Plus, I’ve been reading href="http://photomatt.net/">PhotoMatt lately… and, let’s face
it, WP is what all the cool kids are using (I’m resisting the
temptation to make each word of “all the cool kids are using” link to a
different cool WP-powered weblog).

I actually got to the point of having all my Movable Type entries
imported, and custom templates created to make it work the way I
wanted.  But when it came time to make the switch, I got cold feet.  I
run fettig.net on a tummy.net
virtual server, which (while wonderful and inexpensive) is a little
short in the memory department, and I have lots of things running on
it.  So I have to keep the overhead of my site down to a minumum.  The
thought of firing up PHP and MySQL for every page load, especially my
RSS feed, seems like a huge waste of resources.

I tried the staticize
plugin, and while that did improve things, it still felt noticably
slower than with static HTML pages.  At that point I almost started
working on a new wordpress plugin that generated PHP-less static output
(I think you could use mod_rewrite and wordpress to create a good href="http://philringnalda.com/blog/2002/11/halfbaked_and_a_little_fried.php">half-baked
system), but I realized that would take a bunch of time and not give me
any advantages over my current setup with Movable Type.  So I’m
sticking with MT for now.