I got an email this morning – several of them, actually — letting me know that Blogger would be discontinuing FTP/SFTP publishing of blogs. Since I don’t like some of the minor restrictions of using Blogger’s hosted publishing, I’ve always appreciated this feature. But alas, all good things come to an end. Faced with the decision of moving from Blogger to some other blogging platform, the decision was an easy one; in my opinion, Wordpress is hands-down the best small-blog publishing platform available. I moved to Blogger several years back for performance reasons; I’d started hosting one of my sites on a severely underpowered server (486-class processor, and 128MB RAM), and running dynamic PHP pages would have taxed it to it’s limits; MySQL completely pushed it over the edge. Currently, this site is running on a Slicehost server with plenty of RAM and the flexibility to easily add more if needed, so dynamic, database-driven pages are back in vogue. Migrating was relatively painless; on the one hand, the Blogger import tool introduced a few errors, some of which still need to be dealt with, but on the other hand, I used this as an opportunity to make some minor styling tweaks that I’d been putting off.
So enjoy — you can now log in via Facebook Connect, by the way — and let me know if you come across any egregious problems with the new site!
