Birmingham Web Designer Jeremy Flint blogs here. He works for Kinetic Communications. He organizes events and programs for IPSA. He takes pictures and posts them on Flickr. He also blogs about Hiking and Mississippi State Sports when he has the time. He recommends Dreamhost for all your hosting needs. Make sure you grab the RSS Feed.

I made the transition over to Dreamhost this weekend. For about 3 years, I have been hosting this site on a friends server at Contrast Hosting for free. I was happy there, except that they began having problems with the SSL certificate on their SMTP server about a year ago. My DSL provider at home (Bellsouth) blocks all traffic on port 25 unless it is sent through their server. That prevented me from replying to e-mails sent to my domain account from home. I also didn’t want to continue freeloading off my friend, especially since my site and maybe one other were the only reason he was keeping this server.

I started using Dreamhost last summer to host my MSU Sports Blog and have been happy with their service. I have set up several other sites there, and discovered not long ago that I had the ability to host multiple domains on a single account. I moved the site I keep for my son over there a month or so ago, and finally got around to moving mine over. The 20GB of storage and 1TB of transfer doesn’t hurt either.
Another bit of maintenance I performed was reloading my feedburner feed. I was using a WordPress plugin that redirected traffic to jeremyflint.com/feed to my feedburner URL. Lately, I have noticed gaps in my feed reporting that showed days at a time where no traffic was coming to my feed. So, I have stopped using that plugin and now just point my Feedburner URL directly to my feed URL here, taking out the middle man.

I am still kind of tidying things up a bit, so you may see a broken page here or a missing image there. It will all be back to normal soon.

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