Moving hosting providers
Some of you may have noticed some funny things going around here and maybe some downtime. Hopefully, though, it’s the last you’ll be seeing of that and also of the general slowness that has been plaguing the site for the last few months.
I’ve moved hosting providers from Media Temple to Slicehost. It’s more of an upgrade than anything else, since now I have a VPS which I can configure however I like. I’ve installed the web server and FTP server myself and have moved my email hosting to Google Apps which means I don’t have to waste time setting up a mail server.
What this means is that there should be much more flexibility in what I can do here. I’m in the middle of installing ASP.net support, which will hopefully be followed by JSP support (I’m learning Java at the moment so I want to experiment a little) and WebDAV, which will allow me to share my calendars across systems without using an external service. What this means for the public side of things is that there should be much more creativity across the site with new apps. I’ve even installed Ruby support ever since I saw a Flickr search system crafted in less than five minutes!
It’s the next part in my hosting saga - next stop will probably be in a few year’s time when I get some more money. I’ll hopefully be able to move to a dedicated or co-hosted system which will allow me even more flexibility in terms of bandwidth, storage and memory allocation and allow me to run lots of websites and other services.