Last post from home server…

If you didn’t know, nearly all of my blog posts originate from my home computer…

“Duh,” you might say, while thinking, “where else would you be writing the posts from.”

…no, I don’t just mean that I write them at home–I serve them from home as well; or, at least I used to…

Several years ago, I had installed XAMPP on our main PC and opened up the ports on the firewalls, so that I could run my own self-hosted installation of WordPress. (There were other reasons behind my creating a server–one was using a script to do automated posts to the @harrisonema twitter account; I had previously been running this script on the EMA’s host, but they threatened to shut me down because of resource abuse. Funny, I ran the script on an old Windows machine and never had any problems!)

…anyway, I began to write and auto-generate content from my home-server, and had it send out my posts to other connected blogging services–that’s how this post now appears on WordPress.com and LiveJournal. Neat, huh? (Yeah, I know, not really…)

Recently, I’ve been having more and more traffic hit the “server”, causing tons of problems with the connection to our ISP. Though I enjoy the thought of receiving a ton of traffic, it becomes a pain when the episode of Star Trek you’re watching keeps having to rebuffer.

So, later on tonight, I’m going to shut down my server’s connection to the outside world. 🙁

If you’re one of they few that actually read this blog or visit my dyndns.org address, this may have an impact on you. How? Well, first, I’m only planning on writing at WordPress.com; this means that none of my posts will be shared at LiveJournal, Blogger, etc. Secondly, if you’ve been one of the few that were granted access to resources hosted on my home-server, you’re not going to be able to reach them anymore–this includes family photos, books, etc. Sorry.

Certain links to media embedded in previous posts may disappear–I’m not 100% certain on this… Many of the pictures that I’ve included in my posts are being hosted at WordPress thanks to the “Photon” portion of the JetPack plugin I have in use on my home server. Where the originating address will no longer work, WordPress may decide to perform “clean-up” and remove the media from their servers…

…sigh…

If you’d like to continue to read my ramblings, head on over to kg4vma.wordpress.com–I plan on publishing all future posts there…

…as for friends and followers on Facebook, Twitter and Google+; I plan on having WordPress push status updates for my posts from kg4vma.wordpress.com…

…well, I guess that’s it for now. Hope to see you over at WordPress!