Perspicacity

I have to admit that this description of what it took to set up pers.picacio.us will be a lot shorter than it would have been if it were not for Dreamhost, our web hosting provider. They provide very effective tools to automagically set up the blogging software (WordPress), discussion forums (phpBB), and even a full-fledged wiki (MediaWiki, the same software Wikipedia uses). Dreamhost’s tools effectively require no configuration beyond giving names to things and deciding where the new service should reside on the hosted disk. So, as a result, we seem to be good to go!
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