Devurandom on the Planet
I mentioned recently that I had migrated this site to a new server. I'm pretty happy about the move and just wanted to mention it here. This site now sits on a dedicated server hosted at The Planet. So far, so good. And (keeping in mind my experience with them is limited to this year only) I would recommend their servers.
Jerry and I went in together on the server, and that has kept the cost low. We're hosting both of our personal sites and the two or three other sites we have for play. We were both on very limited shared hosting before this -- and man! the work I had to do to get Django running under that (no shell access, fcgi hacks, etc.) -- and now this feels like my site is getting the attention it deserves.
I'm running the site on Django still, but now I'm doing it properly with mod_python. I kept with MySQL, which is what my earlier host had because it saved me migrating to PostgreSQL (a trivial matter, I know) and also MySQL seems to run better with less required attention on a small site like mine. I've already fixed a number of bugs with my site because it's easier to do so now. And I've got a number of little changes and new features that I'll be working on as time allows of the next couple months.
Since I work on web sites all day long, my site never really gets the love it deserves, but with the new hardware I feel like I'm loving on you again Devurandom.org! And look, I've blogged 5 times in the last 4 weeks, a new record!
Posted by deryck on February 6, 2008
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