I started my series about bzr as an excuse to teach myself something that may be useful at work, and as a way to see if I enjoyed writing content. Which, for now, I do. I was using blogger, and quickly got fed up with the lack of options, and a fairly frustrating editing experience. So, I started to look into other options. I don’t think I’ve put a site online for personal use/work since 1998 or so. This project also served as a way to see how things are done these days. It’s been a fun experience.
First Steps
After doing some research I ran across Linode for my hosting solution. They were offering everything I wanted for not a ton of money. I get a pretty fast box, with 36oMB of ram, 12G of disk an 200G a month of transfer. This seemed like more than enough for me. I get full control over the machine; I can reboot/reinstall/do whatever I want. They even provide a remote console in case something goes wrong. They give you 10+ common linux distributions to choose from for the base install. The process was as easy as: pay them, pick your distro, click go. 30 second later I had my vanilla install.
