Trackbacks and Pingbacks seem to be working.
Ever since my host had a major outage (actually, they colo, and their provider had a massive power failure), the trackbacks and pingbacks seem to be working.
I never realized how much the giving and receiving of pingbacks motivated my writing. Perhaps now I’ll be motivated to finished that series of heath care posts I was writing.
I’d consider getting my own server rackmounted somewhere, but I’d have to get a lot of utility out of it to justify the cost. The cheapest hosting I can find where I have root on my own box seems to be the many Mac mini colo plans, but they end up being at least $35 a month and I’d have to provide the Mac mini myself.
My current provider, NearlyFreeSpeech.net, handles my current hosting needs at a cost of 5-7 cents a day. I expect to get away with a total hosting bill of <$25 for the entire year unless I get slashdotted or something (and in that case, I might get charged an extra one time fee of $10 or so.) So I have no plans on going anywhere anytime soon.
