Diaryland is being way slow. I was going to go there and edit my templates to reflect copyright notices and keywords for when I resubmit to search engines, but when I finally got the appropriate page and made the changes, it just sat there when I hit the submit button. Ugh.

I don't know if they're doing maintenance, or that tier has been reached where there is enough thrashing going on to keep the system from servicing requests effectively, or what, but it's ugly.

Anyway, when I try to access <anything>.diaryland.com, most of the time it just sits there. A lot of the time it times out. Ugh. I think it may just be network connectivity, because I ran a long ping campaign against restlessmind.diaryland.com and got 59% packet loss.

I need to be thinking about where I want to move my journal, but I really don't know where to go. The trick is the effect of too many moves.

See, I could go ahead and sign up with someplace like Crosswinds and move, but the problem there is that then when I host up my domain I have to move yet again. I expect with every move there is a small fraction of users that I lose, even if I put in notices and forwarding redirects and all that rot.

(I just redid my ping test; 63% packet loss.)

A service like this could be so scalable, too, that's what's sad. Sure, it may require banner ads to support it, cost-wise, or a modest monthly payment. I almost think it'd be worth it. Too bad I don't think there's money in it.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't, I guess.

restlessmind