Teach42

Ok, still getting the hang of Wordpress, but I really like what it has to offer.

And I’m seriously liking Bluehost not only because it is saving my bandwidth (and marriage), but because it has a slew of features that I didn’t even know about when I bought into it. For one thing, it keeps stats like nobody’s business. Webalizer, Analog, Awstats, plus bandwidth charts, independant stats for subdomains and so on and so on. A ton of email options, 1000 email accounts as well as three different webmail clients (NeoMail, Horde and SquirrelMail). You also have full FTP access in addition to full SSH access, which I love.

But here’s my favorite part so far: they use Fantastico to provide a bundle of ‘modules’ that you can add to your site with one click. What types of modules? Glad you asked. Blog Engines (B2Evolution, Nucleus, pMachine free and Wordpress), Content Management Systems (Drupal, GeekLog, PHP-Nuke, Xoops, etc…), Discussion Boards, E Commerce Solutions, Guestbooks, FAQ makers, Image Galleries, Mailing Lists, Polls, Surveys, Sitebuilders, heck, they even have Moodle! And all of them are autoinstall options for your site. I tried a few and they all worked perfectly. So many options, so little time. I’m still trying to figure out what else BlueHost offers. I just discovered earlier today that they have a cron job manager in their control panels. Full support for subdomains as well. Since they give you a free domain name when you sign up, I registered a new domain and have Teach42 as a subdomain of it. Works perfectly.

Anyway, it’s funny. Yesterday I didn’t blog anything at all. One day. But for some reason, it feels like I haven’t blogged forever. I actually had to scroll back through to check when the last time I posted was. Go figure, eh? It didn’t take long for it to become an integral part of my life. I actually have a queue of things to blog about. Tomorrow my wife is going to be heading to the eye doctor and I have to sit and wait for her. Maybe I’ll bluetooth into the ol’ cell phone and get some blogging done there.

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