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I have been hosting my own blog for a few months now and I thought I should share some of the stuff I learned while working through the pain of setting up a site at home. You will want an ‘always on’ broadband connection to host your site, like DSL, Cable or Wireless. Most ISPs will charge you an extra $10 or $25 monthly for a static IP but you don’t need one. I have been using DynDNS and their service works very well. Instead of paying your ISP $120 or $300 extra per year for that static IP you can pay DynDNS less than $30 per year to keep your DNS records in sync with the IP you are currently using. In order for this to work seamlessly they (and many 3rd parties) provide small apps which run as a service to monitor for IP address changes and inform DynDNS. Many of these are listed at the DynDNS site. I am using an app called myDynIPPro because it can be set up to call executables (batch files) when your connection is lost. It can be easily configured to trigger email or executables based on other events as well. I use Apache on Windows 2000 for all my sites and I am using WordPress for this and other blogs. Overall I find the system easy to use and very reliable. When I have more time I hope to migrate from Windows to Vector Linux but nothings broken at the moment so fixing it would take time away from other cooler projects. Using Apache I can easily set up multiple sites at the same IP address based on the domain name, this also helps reduce any extra costs that I might be charged by a hosting service. If you are only planning to host one or two sites then you can save lots of time and some money by using one of the many inexpensive hosting services, many have good deals for $5 a month. However, if you plan to host many sub-domains, or do development with the latest web technologies then hosting your own stuff is the way to go.

I have been very interested in statistical filters for many years. I stop to read articles and try out new projects whenever I can. Nuclear Elephant is home to DSPAM one of the best filters out there. It’s only real limitation is the lack of an easy to use installer. There is limited support for windows but their primary focus has been Linux. I recently read this article and thought it important because it dispels many myths and assumptions which may prevent the use of open source projects in corporate environments. Nuclear Elephant: Justifying Statistical Filtering (and Open Source)

I continue to be very busy with some web projects. In the mean time please enjoy this excellent article on Free Open-Source Software by Craig A. James. The Care and Feeding of FOSS: The Lifecycle of Software Technology

I have been working on another new site recently. (will have more on that later) I used the open source HTML editor Nvu (N View) for almost everything on the project. A few years ago I would use Dreamweaver for all my site work but since the open source community has blossomed with so many free solutions I could not bring my self to pay for the upgrade. I did some research to find the most popular HTML editors and started installing and testing each. After two days I settled on Nvu as the weapon of choice. Nvu has a nice site manager, built in spell checker and good support for XHTML and CSS. Because of my Dreamweaver background I found Nvu’s approach to editing very intuitive. Source and WYSIWYG editors are supported by the tool (as one might expect) but it also sports an HTML tag view which helps in visualizing what tags surround various elements. Double clicking on these elements brings up the appropriate property dialog box to expedite the modification of attributes. This is not the only feature similar to those of Dreamweavers, but I will leave you do discover the rest on your own. Try it out.