Well, it’s that time of year again.

I had a choice to make — continue hosting this site with GoDaddy for another year and live with the ridiculous restrictions on the shared hosting there.

OR

Move the site over to a VPS running on Slicehost’s cloud.

Sure, the VPS is more expensive, but I get a whole lot of win for a little extra money.

• Root access, and thus complete control of the server environment
• Automagic backups
• Wildcard DNS
• Unblocked SMTP port for mail
• A testbed for new tech, like Ruby, Python, etc.
• Multiple virtual hosts within Apache
• The ability to run the Varnish HTTP accelerator (better performance!)
• The fun and education of taking care of my own server

It’s just a no-brainer.  Anyhow, I’ve got everything moved over, so if you find any bugs on the site, please don’t hesitate to let me know.

Thanks!

ReadWriteWeb reports today on a study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.

The takeaway?

According to the survey, 46% of people now say they get their news online at least three times a week, surpassing newspapers (40%) for the first time. Only local television is more popular among Americans, with 50% indicating that’s their regular source for news.

Not to mention this beautiful graphic:

So things are looking good for the web.  Not so good for newspapers.  Even less well for magazines, and worst of all for cable news.

I suspect that a large reason for the 13.7% drop in cable news numbers can be directly related to the perception of partisanship on most of those stations.  At least, I hope that’s the reason — it’s a good one.