Design Meme

Well, Design Meme has more of less been transfered over to the new host.

At first I wasn’t sure which hosting service I was going to pick. My friend Aron had good things to say about GoDaddy, but I decided to go with Dreamhost again. I’d used Dreamhost for some other sites, and I knew I could get things setup pretty quickly. They’ve recently added Ruby on Rails to the list of goodies you get with hosting, and I’d been wanting to check that out. DJ and Nate are also on Dreamhost, and they seem pretty happy with it. Of course the biggest incentive for going with Dreamhost was the price—much lower than I had expected. When I saw their new prices I signed up.

Having a proper webhost is something I should have done years ago. When I was updating the site a bit more frequently, around the time I was writing articles for A List Apart, I figured it was a good deal not to have to pay for any bandwidth bills so I used my free account from the University. Similar thinking went into moving the blog to blogspot.com. Now I’m thinking that wasn’t the best idea after all. Links to Design Meme are spread across three different sites.

I’ve started moving everything under the designmeme.com domain, but don’t want to have people’s links, bookmarks and search results get messed up. Fortunately I found a quick tutorial on using htaccess to redirect links and it seems to be working nicely. I’m thinking about adding a Google Sitemap as well to see if that helps as well.