Hosting woes…

Posted on May 16th, 2006 in Meta.

If you visited over the past couple of days, you may have noticed our site was down.  Apparently our hosting service, Razorlogix, lost a hard drive.  This caused them to go down multiple days, and also lose some data, or something, as this blog was never actually restored - the data/database was there, but it wouldn’t run for some reason.  (I’m beginning to suspect overall system or permissions errors, but who knows).  Yeah, pretty unforgivable that a bad hard drive has caused so many problems.

Razorlogix apparently agreed: for better or for worse, they’ve decided to throw in the towel: they’re ceasing commercial hosting in a week or so.  

So I hooked up w/ Dreamhost, and have moved the blog over.  I think everything is back to normal, now.  The big job, however, will be my wife’s blog , which actually has a substantial number of followers…

And, yeah, I’ll get back to posting soon.  Right now, though, I have a new family member that’s taking the bulk of my time. :-D

 

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2 replies

  1. Marc says:

    Added on June 9th, 2006 at 1:43 pm

    I have been very happy with shared hosting that I have from DreamHost. I have:

    Debian Linux
    20 GB of disk space
    1 terabyte of bandwidth
    Unlimited domains
    675 email addresses
    PHP, Perl, MySQL, Jabber, WebDAV, Subversion, Ruby on Rails, WordPress, Gallery, phpBB, etc.

    and the customer support is fantastic.

    and it’s only $7.95/month though I don’t really pay anything because I make $97 off of referrals so it pays for itself and gives me a bit of extra income. I have been very, very pleased with them.

  2. andrew (blog author) says:

    Added on June 9th, 2006 at 2:24 pm

    Yah, we went with Dreamhost. It is slower than our previous host, but so far no crashes! ;-)
    The Rails wiki has a page of referral codes that would give the subscriber the whole $97 referral fee. I told my wife about the referal program and pondered putting an ad up on her blog (she really enjoys bringing money into the house, no matter how much). But I figured that there wasn’t any money it since you can find the “100% altruistic” codes. Good to know that’s not the case. ;-)

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