Moving Servers
I’m switching hosting servers for this site tonight. I have a feeling that I am in the process of doing this really poorly, so don’t be surprised if you visit the site in the next few hours or so, only to discover the smoking remains of what used to be this humble little site.
In the meantime, if you leave a ripple, it might get lost. I’ll give the all-clear signal when it seems to be working smoothly again.
Thanks for your patience. Have a great weekend.
Update: Well, that was mostly successful. It looks like everything made it over just fine, except a few encoded characters went a little wonky throughout the site. Some apostrophes, dashes and quotation marks, for example, have been converted to ???. I’m in the process of fixing those, but that will take a while, since there’s no real rhyme or reason regarding which ones got replaced. Bleh.
But you can go about your rippling. After I fix the punctuation funkiness, I’ll try to join in again.
2 Ripples from “Moving Servers”
shaug says:
January 29, 2006 at 2:01 am
Out of curiousity, what prompted the change?
zalm says:
January 30, 2006 at 3:01 am
A few things: over the past few weeks I noticed server overloads almost once a day that lasted for up to half an hour, during which I couldn’t access the site files or check email. That was kind of frustrating.
But I’m also exploring a few CMS options for an upcoming project or two, and the limit on my old account of 6 MySQL databases was going to potentially become prohibitive.
I’m trying out Dreamhost. I don’t know yet how their service will be, but look at the difference in plans…
My old plan:
400 MB disk space
23 GB transfer per month
40 e-mail addresses
15 addon domains
6 MySQL databases
Dreamhost:
20 GB disk space
1 TB transfer per month
unlimited e-mail addresses
unlimited addon domains
unlimited MySQL databases
And it’s cheaper.
Oh, and they give me an additional 160 MB of disk space and 8 GB of bandwidth every week. So every four weeks, I get more additional space and bandwidth than I had with my original plan.
I’ll never use that much. But damn. It was hard to pass up.
I’ll let you know more about the reliability and service as I get better acquainted with them.
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