I can’t fathom why it is so difficult to make a shitty little site like mine, one with pageviews in the range from hilariously low to not terrible, operate with a modicum of responsiveness. I’m hosted with Dreamhost at the moment. I’ve thought about getting one of their private server deals that supposedly make these problems less of a problem, but at that point I might as well go full-bore and go with a shared host somewhere where I’d have real control and real responsiveness.

Is it really necessary to either pay these ridiculous costs for a barely functional website that times out more frequently than it returns a page? Well, no, I can have a blog on any number of the free blogging services and it would suit 99% of my needs. But there’s something to be said for having your own domain, the agency it exerts.

I still haven’t decided what, if anything, I’m going to do about this. I’ll probably end up simply buckling under the monopoly of shitty shared hosting and get something more dedicated. Though, should I do that, I hope I’ll also put some more effort into making this site something that couldn’t be hosted by any random free blogging service. If I’m paying for something, I might as well use it.

You may have noticed recently that my site has been atrociously slow. I know I’ve felt it when attempting to write my posts recently. Sadly, it’s not because I’ve had a sudden surge in web traffic, but rather because my web host is not doing a very good job of handling my mediocre traffic. I’ve contacted them and they’ve initiated steps that will hopefully fix this problem in the next few days, though the site may disappear briefly during the upgrade. In the meantime, schedule a block of time to read my undoubtedly unnecessarily long Dollhouse review in the coming days.