I spent more time than I had planned or expected to spend using this program. I'm more than aware that most of the formerly 'free' Net services are converting into pay-for-use ones. That was part of the reason, I migrated my homepage over to Geocities, annoying ads and all. I am still however, taking advantage of the storage space provided by Homestead, without which, there would not be the neato little buttons you find in and around this blog. The project today was to create a redirect page for my Homestead site and clear out the remnant files off the server there. In theory, that sounded simple enough. I had already drafted the page I had planned on using and thought all I'd have to do was simply upload the file and be done. Well, not at Homestead, unfortunately. In order to get anything into the root directory there, you have to create the the page using Site Builder. And for that, you have to download the program to your own system. At this point, Site Builder has already earned it's one and only star, for aesthetics. I didn't expect that the program to be the resource hog that it turned out to be and be anywhere as unstable as it was. For such a simple page, I think I had to reboot my system twice and restart the program itself at least a half a dozen times. Frustrating enough for me to rule out recommending this to anyone looking for a simple place to create a homepage. The end result, I created a page that links to the redirect page that I originally thought I could just upload.
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