It’s funny, but self-hosting a website on a 1Mbit DSL line can be slow.  Really slow.  Add that to my increasing laziness as far as maintaining my WordPress installation, and general love of trying new things, and I decided it was time to look for new ways to rant on the intertubes.

I’ve been listening to This Week In Tech a lot recently, and one of the advertisers was a hosting company called Squarespace.  TWIT has a pretty good record (In my book, at least) of picking good advertisers, so I decided to give their free trial a go, and that’s what I’m typing this in now.

While I haven’t been using it long enough to make an informed judgement, my first impressions have been very positive.  Squarespace provides a nice AJAX WYSIWYG editor, and your entire site is easily customizable by dragging and dropping different elements.  Several layouts, each with a few different styles are available and easily switched between, and each theme can then be tweaked manually in the editor or by modifying the raw CSS file.

I also can’t comment on the speed of uploads and downloads as the trial account doesn’t give you any storage space to work with, but it stands to reason that as a hosting company, the speeds should be plenty good enough for me (managing my site is certainly snappy enough).

At this point, I’m pretty much sold on it, and will probably be using this as my primary blog for the future.  I’m planning on starting fresh, leaving my old site in read-only mode for archival purposes, and only hosting new content here.