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I’ve done it.

I’ve gone to the “dark side”, to WordPress.

I should clarify, I’ve long been a fan of the blogging software Serendipity – it’s BSD licensed, reasonably lightweight, easy to develop for, supports PostgreSQL and has a pretty good security track record. In contrast, WordPress is GPL, somewhat heavy, I have no idea how to develop for it, the developers come from the “what do you mean MySQL isn’t a real database?” camp and in the past has had some pretty harsh criticism about it’s security.

However, as I push harder and harder for Sabrienix to be the main breadwinner in our household, it’s become apparent that I’ll need to not only understand but get very good at hacking on WordPress. Sure, when Wendy signed up for hosting I got lucky and was able to answer most of her questions for her, but that was mostly because she was new at some of the stuff (and therefore wasn’t asking for much) and partially because she’d had a wordpress.com account and thus knew her way around it.

Since then I’ve had a few others sign up, most of whom I really haven’t had to bail out at all – they know more or less what they’re doing.

Come New Year’s Eve I picked up another client for Teamspeak hosting, who later wanted me to setup a PHP-Nuke site for their clan. It was around this point that I reached a place I really wasn’t comfortable in being in as a host. Sabrienix is dedicated to being a host that looks after people who aren’t quite ready to go it alone, and I absolutely can’t stand not knowing the software people are wanting to use inside and out.

So I made the decision that despite my hangups about using WordPress, I really should know far more about it than I currently do so that clients are getting the most out of me. I should stress that I’m not ditching S9y because there’s anything wrong with it, I just need to experiment with WordPress a little. This site is that experiment.

Here goes nothing.

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