Adventures With Movable Type

I switched from Movable Type to Wordpress almost two years ago. I could lie and say that I never looked back, but it would, of course, be a lie. Much as I love Wordpress it is not without its faults. While I originally enjoyed the way it published articles "on the fly" I've now come to find that feature to be a little bit annoying. Why? Well every time someone visits an entry, browses a category or interacts with this blog a number of SQL queries are generated. Although the database is not that big the number of queries per hour and per day is quite high: 17,769.75 queries per hour (not just for this site admittedly) The knockon effect is that the server can become slow and unresponsive at times, as the MySQL daemon (the database engine) is being hammered. With Movable Type, however, the pages / entries / categories etc., are static files, so there is no need to generate database queries each time an entry or page is viewed. When I setup the Blacknight blog I opted for Movable Type over Wordpress for that reason, among others. I've also been experimenting with the plugins and extensions that are available for MT and so far I have not been disappointed. In some cases I've been pleasantly surprised with the ease of installation and management. For example setting up Feedburner was simply a matter of a couple of clicks. I didn't even have to login to my feedburner account to do it, as the MT plugin did that for me! I'm in two minds as to what I should do moving forward and I'm also aware that it is only "early days", but I must say I am impressed with the management console / inteface that MT provide. However, the installation procedure is still horrendous compared to Wordpress.