Moving to Blogger

I have decided to move the contents of this blog from self-hosted Drupal to Blogger. I like Drupal, but Blogger is so much easier to manage. I am, of course, losing the freedom to make alterations and customizations as I fit, but I have never done that in the several years the blog has been live. Also, I am getting a little fed up with the blog spam. I was getting multiple spam attempts every day and a few were squeaking through the antispam measures (mostly just filtering and a captcha). Blogger seems to keep that more at bay.

Drupal security

Big thumbs up to Drupal on security.  There were a few meager attempts to hack into this site.  The IP addresses track back to the ministry of education in Thailand...usually this kind of stuff hits my sites from China (though, given the world population distribution, that might just be the law of averages working).  In any case, the standard security of Drupal was enough to keep these casual hackers at bay.

And here I thought nobody was visiting this site...

Drupal modules

Here is a good overview of must-have Drupal modules.

Drupal multisite

I needed to create a new website with Drupal.  I have existing basic hosting with drupal set up on the main site.  To extend it to add another website, I did the following: