In January I launched this site. It was running horrible slow because I never found the time to get into the whole fastcgi thing. This basically means that every time somebody accessed the site a new CGI process was created. Not really fast...

Fortunately my hosting service is using mongrel for rails hosting, now. Today I made the switch and hopefully you are already feeling the difference. The mongrel process was very easy to setup and so far I am really impressed by the performance boost.

But wait there is more. I also moved my RSS feed over to Feedburner. Feedburner allows you to gather some statistics about your feed and should be more reliable. Do not worry the old address will automatically redirect you to the new one.

On a side note did you now that the domain http://thegreatest.com is owned by a janitorial service company. Strange world...