I have moved all the Wordpress blogs to my new server at SliceHost. The server is called smurf. I don't think I screwed up the database or left it out of sync or forgot to change the permissions for images. But we will see.

If things are going wrong, it's probably not your fault.

People who have blogs on my server might not be able to get to them for a little while. I'm moving them to a better server.

Blogfeed now has it's own Atom Feed. Given that I just forgot (for a minute) how this post was different to my post a few days ago about Atom and Blogfeed, most of you will probably also wonder. Chris asked for this, but I'm certainly not convinced that it provides any value. Hopefully it does for Chris. At least I learnt about Atom.

Blogfeed is now Atom-enabled. SimplePie is approximately four billion times better than PEAR fricking XML Feed Parser. And after a brief romance, I've concluded that PHP date() is much, much better than PEAR Date. If only PEAR wasn't so neatly integrated and standardised I'd abandon it altogether.

If anyone is wondering what all this means, it is that Tom, Steve and Anmol can now all come to the Blogfeed party.

The VPS totally died while I was at the Blues Festival. It's running again now. It will probably happen again though. I suppose you get what you pay for.

Tom is missing from the Blogfeed. We apologise for any inconvenience or psychological harm.

Tom helpfully pointed out that Blogfeed dates were totally borked. I spent a fair while fixing them, and maybe I still haven't. Pear Date sure does suck arse. Timezones are awful horrid things. Quite a few people are an hour out still, but I'm pretty sure that's because they've put 10 in where 11 would have made a better timezone offset. Daylight saving is also a dog.

In the interests of saving the money of my old work, I've moved footboot.net to my flaky server. Currently it's at feed.footboot.net but that should change when I have a bit more time.

If you want Wordpress to show more than 10 items in the RSS you can change it in Options > Reading.

I made some little changes to Blogfeed. It now shows the activity for all the non-Blogger folks. Hopefully readers will be more likely to go to the actual website when there are lots of new posts.

After some extended technical difficulties - me forgetting to uncomment Tom's config line - Tom is back on The Bog.

Tom - Just out of curiosity I'd be interested to see your Webstat graphs during your exile.

I've installed Wordpress MU on my happy little server. So if any of those footboot.net folks languishing on Movable Type want to move their blogs you should let me know. If you want some theme it's easy to throw it in there too. There are heaps of good themes for Wordpress.

I'm started renting a dandy server in America for $13 a month. It's pretty sweet. Full root access. 128MB ram. 5GB hard disk space. More bandwidth than you can poke a stick at. I moved this blog there yesterday, and it took all of about 10 minutes. I might move more important things there if all goes well.

One of the fun things is that you can install any of about 15 different Linux servers onto it with a little click. I've already been through two versions of Ubuntu and a version of Debian vanilla. I'm thinking I'll stick with Ubuntu Dapper now though. Seems pretty sweet. Lighttpd is finally in the repositories.

I've fixed up Blogfeed to use RSS. If someone doesn't have that then it can still do it the old way. But everyone seems to have RSS already. If your site is currently working on Blogfeed, then you can remove the old comments from your blog.

I made Blogfeed more pretty.

Update: Much thanks to those beautiful human beings at Alistapart.