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date: 2013-02-10T00:00:00-05:00
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title: "Bye bye, Juvia!"
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tags: [comment-system, heads-up, en_us, english]
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---
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Once upon a time, there was a guy who cared about what other people
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could say about what he was writing on his blog. Well, like all fairy
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tales, this one also has a happy ending!
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In case you didn't make the connection, the "guy" is me `:-)`. And also
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in case you didn't notice: my blog does not have a comment system
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anymore. My reasoning for that is simple, and I can make a small list
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with the major points that made me take this decision:
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1. Juvia (the comment system I was using) is written in Ruby, which
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in itself is enough to drop it entirely (I really don't understand
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how it is modeled, and I spent quite some time trying to figure
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out how to hack it);
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2. I had to run Passenger on my Apache, which was eating lots of RAM
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(I only have 2GB of RAM in my personal home server, which is where
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I was running Juvia);
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3. I had to run MySQL in order to store the comments (the other
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option was PostgreSQL), which was also eating lots of RAM;
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4. I want to use my personal home server for other things `:-)`.
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I probably could list a few more reasons, but I think you get the
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picture. Before dropping the comment system, I spent some days
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thinking about whether the blog readers would like the decision or
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not, but after all this time I came up with this: if you, dear reader,
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want to send me your opinion about what I write here, you can easily
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send me an e-mail (see the "[About](/about/)" page for my
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address), and I will happily reply to whatever you have to say. And if
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I notice that the blog is losing by not having interesting
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discussions, I can easily bring the comment system back online (though
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I'd like to find another solution that consumes less memory).
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Anyway, that's it. I'll make another post about something interesting
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soon, I promise. Stay tunned!
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