Site changes

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Okay, so if you’ve tried to visit my site in the last year, you’ll have noticed that it was so frickin’ slow. Like really, it would take 12-seconds to load the front page, which is an eternity in Internet time. (I was feeling like Comcast had already won and the Internet was being choked to heel like a recalcitrant dinosaur.) It’s been incredibly frustrating.

To try to alleviate the problem, I’ve added a VPS. I have no idea what it is or how it works (of course), but it’s supposed to make things better. At least they have 24/7 support, so they better be prepared for my barrage of nonsense.

Seriously, it reached the point that I just wasn’t feeling like posting anything because it was too frustrating. I wasn’t up to dealing with my own site, which makes me a bad site owner (“I didn’t mean for Fido to bite anyone. It just happened!”), so there I was throwing away money I don’t have on something that wasn’t working and was just making me angry.

Hopefully the VPS makes things better. If not… I have no idea what to do ;_;

UPDATE: Still super slow. Hopefully things will speed up once things propagate (right? right? Yeah, I don’t know how any of this works).

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Over the next few days, I will be working to add audio posts to big chunks of my blog. I’m not going to go back through and pod everything, but I will be doing my free reads for sure.

Hopefully I’ll be keeping my podcasts up to date with future posts, though there might be cases when the post goes up first and the audio comes a day or two later. Why? Because I’m currently living at my dad’s house and there’s always someone being loud as hell (me!), which makes it really hard to record anything.

This will probably be the only post talking about this in such a frank manner. Why? Because I’m kind of a wuss and I have a clinical case of social anxiety. To that end, I created the heteronym “Audiophobe.” And Audiophobe is willing to read anything. That’s not to say you would want to listen to it, because as is evident if you hit the audio on this post, “Audiophobe” sounds like a little kid. Still, it’s better to have the audio and wince a bit, then not to be able to enjoy the complete awesomeness at all. Amirite? Yeah.

Here’s the feed URL: http://www.harperkingsley.net/blog/feed/audiophobe/

Enjoy.