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| Wed June 16th, 2010 at 3:54 PM PDT |
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I finally caved and bought some proper hosting for this site. I love running it out of my apartment, but the Internet connection I currently have is just too sketchy to support that (Clearwire is an awful ISP). Enter Linode. I've known about them for a while now, and it was always in the back of my mind to get a small VPS and run the website right. I've done VPS hosting before, with a company called WestHost, but they were truly awful, so bad that now they outsource their VPS hosting to another company, VPS.net. I left them before that changeover happened though, because I couldn't take it anymore, and moved the site back to my apartment server. The new virtual machine's name is nimbus.codewise.org. It's running Arch Linux, Apache 2.2, MySQL, and PHP 5.3.2, among other things. The virtual machine is hosted on a server in Dallas, Texas. It's got 512 MB of RAM allocated to it, 16GB of disk space, and can push 200GB of data per month. Not bad for 20 bucks a month! For those not familiar, VPS stands for Virtual Private Server. It's just like running your own box, where you have control over everything, from the operating system, to the software installed, to the user accounts. The only difference is that instead of being a physical machine, it's a virtual machine that shares hardware with other customers, so it's a lot cheaper than dedicated hosting. As long as you don't need the performance of a dedicated server box (and few do), a VPS is just as good. Compare this to shared hosting, which is very cheap, but you don't have much control over the server software or operating system. You can usually only access the server through a web-based control panel. With a VPS or dedicated hosting, you can connect straight to the machine's console to watch boot-up messages or open a terminal session. The first thing I've migrated over is Codewise Blogs. If you were using http://alt.codewise.org:8080/blogs.codewise.org/wrf/ to access the site before, you can trim that down to http://blogs.codewise.org/wrf/ again. The old address will still work, but it will redirect you with HTTP 301 Moved Permanantly. If you get an "infinite redirect" error, it's just because the new DNS records for blogs.codewise.org haven't propogated to your location yet. Be patient; it shouldn't take more than a few hours. |
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