Migration Jan 10 2006

I have now migrated my blog software, Scrawl, across to my new dedicated server, running the latest version of Mono (1.1.13), and I have also switched from using PostgreSQL to MySql (5.0.18). This decision was three-fold really, first of all, MySql I think is easier to setup and maintain than PostgreSQL, and secondly, it is far far speedier, making the applications that use it much quicker also. Hopefully this, combined with the fact that the new dedicated server is a much beefier box, should make the blog a lot lot faster :-) Thirdly, and finally, MySql 5 now has stored procedures, along with a raft of other features, and so finally it can really hold its own against other enterprise databases.