Moving to Octopress

It has taken much longer than anticipated but I have finally moved this site from using to wordpress to octopress. This was mainly due to being busy with work but hey finally done. :)

What is Octopress

So what is octopress. Octopress is a static site generator. This means that is does not use a database but static configuration files. It is much nicer to write blog posts using the native markdown language used by octopress.

Reasons to choose octopress over wordpress

Wordpress is really slow. Octopress being a static site is tested to be 300% faster that a wordpress site on the same amazon micro instance.

Wordpress is a difficult to backup. You can take database dumps but this is only some of the configuration. Octopress is all contained in a single directory with commands to then push out the generated site.

Editing html tags gets tedious very quickly.