When Brains Fly

I have used 10.73 MB of bandwidth over the last three days based on my web access log. That feels like a lot. I think most of it is due to the large sizes of the WordPress admin php pages. Under NearlyFreeSpeech.NET (NFSN), I am paying based on how much bandwidth I use, which is [...]

My webhost, NearlyFreeSpeech.NET (NFSN) made this pretty easy.
First, I made sure that my access log was enabled. Then, I made a cgi script in /home/public called awstats.cgi which had the following contents:

#!/bin/sh
exec nfsn-awstats

(Don’t forget the line break on the second line.)
Next, I set the file’s permissions to 755, opened up a browser to [...]

Installing Movable Type is pretty simple. Unfortunately, I still messed it up, multiple times. So, for my reference and for yours, here are the steps to installing Movable Type on my web server.
This site is hosted on NearlyFreeSpeech.NET (NFSN), which is an awesome, pay-for-what-you-use hoster. It already has the right PHP and Perl things installed [...]