Okay web site, you win. I’m moving you outta the house.
The time has come to move this site to a place that does hosting. My days of trying to figure out why my server is so hooped I can’t even log into it any more (seriously, the thing doesn’t respond to Ctrl-Alt-Del any more, or when it DOES, it takes 15 minutes to prompt me for a username & password, and then spends another 20 minutes trying to get to a desktop).
Email’s been non-functional for MONTHS, and I can’t remote into the box any more, so trouble-shooting is somewhat, uh, hampered. What’s weird is that you’re reading this from that very same utterly hooped box, so obviously SOME of the services and things work. Oh well.
Moving on.
We’re trucking all of our blogs and stuff over to the good (fast, cheap, and friendly) folks at FusedNetwork, and since we’ve got a few databases on the go, and have things like Podcasts running here, we need the space and bandwidth offered with their “Package 2,” which worked out to less than we were paying Telus for the privilege of screwing up our own DNS. (Don’t get me started on Telus’ “We’re protecting you, so we’re going to break all inbound DNS and SMTP without telling anyone, so give us an extra $40/mo if you were running a server” thing that happened a year ago). Three months of having our website hosted will pay us back for the entire year of being with Telus on their “Business” package.
What with me no longer being gainfully employed (more on that after the move, perhaps), I have some time to work on things like moving web sites around, and thought about trying to bang my head against the wall and get the server running properly again, and starting thinking of the stress of trying to do that on a box that has two VERY active blogs on it (and one that’s more sporadic – mine), and trying to do all the patches and stuff that might be needed at 11pm so I don’t interrupt traffic for those two sites and just thought… forget it. I’ll pay someone else to make sure the site is up. $12/mo sounds like a decent amount to not have to think about it any more.
So we’ll talk when we arrive on the other side. Mmmmkay?
PS: Anyone wanting to leave more comments about Jan’s passing away can feel free to do so, I’ll just copy them over to the new site once we arrive there properly.
PPS: We’re at the new locale now, so if you’re reading this, we’re DONE! Yay.
