This is the first post on the new blog. I’ve completed my move to WordPress from Mephisto. I know what you’re saying. Andrew, you’re a Rails developer, what gives?

It’s simple really, I never did much tweaking inside Mephisto. My hosting company, Media Temple provides a pretty good package called the Grid Server, but one downside is the small amount of memory provided. Because of this I can only run 2 small Rails apps at a time on my share, but they don’t count memory from PHP apps against my space.

I’m sure you see where I’m going by now. Mephisto and Mongrel took up a bunch of memory and responded kind of slow (Grid Server is a shared hosting environment after all). WordPress is quick, clean and has quite a few more features. It’s a bit more complex but the user community is quite large. I’ve managed to migrate my articles, add Google Syntax Highlighter, Google Sitemap, and Google Analytics along with some simple PHP tweaks to this cool theme over the course of 2 short nights.