Bigger Boards With Bigger Nails: A Bleg

An anti-spam company thought that it had come up with an ingenious way to combat unsolicited commercial emails:

(Eran) Reshef's Silicon Valley company, Blue Security Inc., simply asked the spammers to stop sending junk e-mail to his clients. But because those sort of requests tend to be ignored, Blue Security took them to a new level: it bombarded the spammers with requests from all 522,000 of its customers at the same time.

But the spammers retaliated.  Using tens of thousands of hijacked computers, they launched a furious counter-attack against Blue Security that was so severe, it also affected a number of other sites, including TypePad, the engine behind The Malcontent and many other blogs.  (Which would explain the latest behind-the-scenes frustrations experienced by Robbie and me.)

The spammers told Blue Security to cease operations, or it would turn viruses loose on the company's clients.  Rather than risk an all-out war, today Blue Security is unilaterally disarming.

Which leads me to the real topic of this post, a "bleg":

A few months ago, I bought an additional 60GB of server space and 1.8TB of monthly bandwidth at DreamHost to handle our video demands.  But recently, I have also been preparing to ditch TypePad for a WordPress blog.

DreamHost has "one-click" set-up of WordPress, but of course, it takes a lot more than that, and DreamHost doesn't offer a lot of support in exchange for their cheap rates.

So, if there are any talented Web types out there who enjoy this site and would be willing to donate a little time (or at very low cost), in exchange for whatever publicity of kudos I could give you, I could use help to get up and running.  Some of my challenges include exporting our massive archives (and ensuring that all the links work), template and theme design, etc.

I have already put a lot of money into this blog, and what I have gotten in return from TypePad is a lot of downtime, degraded performance of our administrative interface, and a complete lack of support for any sort of innovative features.

So whether you have nuts-and-bolts coding talent or artistic/Web design capability, I would be grateful for any affordable assistance.

Comments

[Yum Yum]

Doesn't Blue Security have legal recourse against spammers?

[blewsdawg]

See why I want to leave TypePad? But nobody has responded to my plea for help. Not a single person, at any price.

Mal, I'd be glad to help, but I'm unfamiliar w/ Wordpress, and have no clue how to do that which appears to be your biggest headache: migrating data from TypePad to WP. I don't want to make any promises I can't keep, and I've had no success migrating my posts from my old Blogger blog to my new MT blog. So if history is any guide...

I do have web development skills, however. If you need any help w/ html or CSS code, email me, and I'll see what I have stashed away.

One suggestion. I've suggested it before, but if you host the blog on your own domain, you can use Movable Type. Migration oughtta be simple if you go that route, since MT is the same platform TypePad uses. I know you had reservations about doing that, because you were'nt confident you could install MT on your domain. That, I could do for you in a couple hours, if you were to decide to do that rather than muck around w/ WP.

What you're most likely up against with the request for help is probably that anyone competent to help is busy w/ their own blog.

*grin*

Oh, and real life and all that kinda jazz, too.

[Malcontent]

Actually, I was able to complete the entire import/migration today. Now what I'm struggling with is an issue on my home computer (but oddly, not my work PC) called "enable sending referrers." There is plenty of advice on the Web on how to deal with it in relation to WordPress, but I have done everything I know how to do and I'm still stumped.

The result is that I can't administer the site from my home PC until I figure it out.

[Malcontent]

P.S. Everything I've read about MT vs. WP is that MT completely blows. WP looks to have a better future because it's truly open-source and free.

[Jamie]

I'd help if I could, Mal. I just started a new blog, and find Wordpress pretty easy to use, but I'm not doing anything remotely like you're talking about and wouldn't have a clue.

[Malcontent]

Well, I'm making progress, I just need to decide when to make the leap.

I want to install a few bells and whistles and settle on a theme before I start nudging people over there. But already Robbie and I both love it more. For instance, I was always able to edit Robbie's posts and to "post-date" the things I write for them to show up at a future date/time. Robbie has never been able to do that, but he will now, so we can write "collaborative" posts more often.

I also installed a one-click translator that will translate the blog (using a Google engine) into eight different languages.

So I'm having fun behind the scenes! :-)

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