Well, I’ve migrated the blog to Mephisto... A rather oddly-named blogging package, but it’s definitely the best thing going for Rails blogging apps these days. Sadly Typo has fallen off the map, and Typo was always something of a dog from a performance perspective.

So, thanks to this article, the migration was pretty easy and Mephisto seems MUCH snappier than Typo. It’s also much less memory-intensive, and has an excellent caching implementation that allows you to expire the cache on command.

Finally, as the new Prototype site seems to be using Mephisto as a CMS with little difficulty, I think we’re going to check out using Mephisto as a low-end simple CMS for sites that don’t require a ton of bells and whistles. We shall see…