Hello everyone, and welcome to my new-old blog, Webmacster87 @ WordPress.com!

As we all know, Webmacster87.info has been down for over a month. This was because my host, BuffetHosting (aka skoker) was terrible, and finally gave up the ghost. I won’t complain too much since I wasn’t paying much for it anyway.

Anyway, during the time that the site was down, I had thought about signing up with a new web hosting company (paid, this time) to host my website. However, I started thinking about this. During the recent months, Webmacster87.info had ceased to be anything beyond a blog. I used to use the webspace for installing numerous phpBB installations for testing my MODs and validating other people’s MODs, however, I’m not doing that stuff anymore. Although I prefer the flexibility of a self-hosted installation of WordPress, I decided that I don’t have the funds needed to pay a bunch of money just for a simple blog, when I can get something almost equivalent for free.

So, that’s what I’ve done. I’ve taken over this blog (formerly called Eeek! Webmacster87 lives at WordPress.com!) which was once just a placeholder blog set up so that I could get an API Key for Akismet, and have transformed it into a refresh of Webmacster87.info. Sure, it doesn’t have everything I want, like some certain plugins or the ability to redirect all feed traffic to FeedBurner. But for now, it’s good enough, and it’s going to be my blog.

The site feed is still at http://feeds.feedburner.com/webmacster87 so if you were subscribed to Webmacster87.info, you’re now subscribed to Webmacster87 @ WordPress.com. Unfortunately, if you try to click on the browser autodiscovery link on this site, you’ll be subscribed to the direct WordPress.com feed instead of the shiny FeedBurner one. I’ve sent in some begs to the folks at WordPress.com and hopefully they’ll respond. As for the old posts? They’re gone, because importing them would be a big hassle and I want to start fresh.

Anyway, celebrate, because my rants, ramblings, and digg stories will be coming back to the intarweb!