Overwhelming force
It took me nearly a full day to post the little piece before this one. I’ve noticed (and several of you have noticed) that the Mex Files loads very slowly… and some days I can’t get it to come up to edit at all. Like most of yesterday and today.
I think I’ve just got too much stuff. I’m starting to shop around for a server, and at least bought “mexfiles.net” as a start. Mexfiles.com is owned by some real estate firm in Florida. I’m not really a web guy (it shows, huh?), but this is the cheapest and easiest way to get out information that would otherwise be unavailable, and keep what one person calls “Mexican Pravda” accessible.
Not being a “web guy” I don’t pay a lot of attention to them, but notice my “hits” about double at the start of the school year, so suspect I’m a source for a lot of student papers. And am flattered. I also hear a lot from politically aware expats (including those who disagree with my spin) and the Mexican diaspora. None of these are particularly wealthy people, but I’ve about run out of options for keeping my costs down.
I’m fairly busy (a major book coming out, two intense writing projects in the works, a few less intense ones … and little things like deciding where I’m going to live permanently, rescuing my goods and chattels from storage, etc.) I’ll be working on finding a server. I’ve located some, but until I can afford to buy the service I need, there’s only so much I can do.
mexfiles.net 
Someone else has also registered http://themexfiles.com/ and has a wordpress blog, but with nothing on it.
Another choice for name might be http://mexfiles.us since it is in english, and partialy US focused or based.
I use both godaddy and directnic. Godaddy is a little chaeper, but directnic will hold a name for you for 30 or 40 days after expiration, so if you forget to renew it, it’s not lost right away. Sometimes important.
I have sites hosted on Dreamhost. Dreamhost includes wordpress for free, though it is not quite as convenient as simply using the wordpress.com set-up.
I sent you an email about free hosting. Have you received it?
I am the one who registered themexfiles.com and themexfiles.org and I am offering them to Richard free of charge. I can redirect them to which ever hosting site he selects, or I can host them on my server for him, again free of charge. I registered them only to do it before one of those domain farms could grab them because Richard posted he was having trouble getting the one he wanted, missing the obvious choice.
You should at least set up mexfiles.net to redirect to the blog. It would take a few minutes, but then you could start promoting the name, if this is the one you want to use, and even if you haven’t migrated to it yet, any traffic woulr re-direct to the set-up that you are using. Also the domains themexfiles.com and themexfiles.org could be set up to re-direct to the blog in the interum. All this would literally take only a few minutes to do, and help the traffic flow to where it should go.
Steve Gallagher