For several years I have been hosting this .Net based web site with WebHost4Life.  The past several months the traffic on the site has gone up to the point to I started noticing long wait times, slow load times, and timeouts.  The final straw was when I sent a link to someone and they told me the site wasn't loading.  It was time to move. WebHost4Life has served me well over the years and they have a great control panel.  They work on volume so stacking a lot of domains onto a server is what they do and how they...

I started using FeedBurner.Com to power the RSS feeds for my blog and I am quite happy in doing so.  I like the stats they provide and the guidance they provide on various tweaks to the feed without having to re-code anything.  One of the items I added to the RSS feed and to the site is FeedFlare.  FeedFlare places a simple footer at the bottom of each entry which allows people to distribute the entry to other sites or to inform other users of an entry. Step 1:  Configure your FeedBurner account for your blog This may seem pretty obvious, but at the risk...

Awhile back I mentioned playing around with SubText and DasBlog, two open source blogging engines written in .Net.  After several weeks of further investigation I decided to migrate to SubText.  The decision was pretty easy in the end since SubText works with .Net 2.0 and appears to be somewhat architected the way I tend to do stuff.  That coupled with the pretty active email list made the choice easier. There are some features that it doesn't have that I wish it did.  For the features it doesn't have I hope to be able to contribute them to the project. Before today I had two...

Somehow I forgot that I purchased a domain awhile ago.  How crazy is that?  I must have been cough, cough, really tired the night I purchased it :)  I went online today to renew some domains and saw a domain in the list that I had that I didn't remember I owned and that was keithelder.net. So, to make it easy on myself when someone asks for my blog I setup a redirect on the domain to point to this blog.  So if you want to remember how to link to my blog (and in case it changes in the...

I talked to a couple of friends this past week that I haven't talked to in awhile and they were like, how come you haven't updated your blog? The reason is I have been EXTREMELY busy. If I have any free time where I don't want to look at a computer I am outside working in the yard trying to clean up our wooded area which was wrecked by the huricane. Honestly I need about $5,000.00 to hire a tree removal company to come in and clean the woods up. Trees are down everywhere and while I am skilled with...

We finally got the site moved and setup Community Server for everyone to enjoy.  We will be back porting some of the old content but I haven't gotten around to it yet. [Updated 1/1/2007] The site is now running SubText.