Because I’m tired of hassling with full-fledged DBMS systems like MySQL and PostgreSQL for personal stuff, the database behind this blog is sqlite. Data is stored in a simple single file, subject to all the utilities of a typical UNIX environment.
Between a simple db and generating static files with MT, it should be relatively straightforward to use my laptop as a staging server for MPR.
Also makes backups damn easy. A cron job and ssh should do the trick.