The website of Tate Johnson
"Welcome to tatey.com, the transmission belt for my random (and sometimes communist) propaganda. Please, grab a beer and poke around, you may even find something interesting – Cheers, Tate"
It’s moving time
Posted in This Site on Thursday, 26th October 2006
For the previous two years, tatey.com and its various hosted websites have resided on Zingers, a web server in my bedroom. In that period, there has been four or five substantial changes to the server. Whether it be a physical hardware transition or switching to an alternate linux distribution, tatey.com has survived in one way or another. Primarily, this website was simply a place where I could easily communicate and share files on the internet. At the same time, it has also been a learning experience administrating my own server. The amount of information and experience that I have gained from maintaining a linux server has been greatly rewarding. Unfortunately, my house is hardly a commercial entity and therefore I cannot ensure that my internet connection will always function, or that I will have enough time to check through logs and upgrade packages. I always seem to set a goal, but never actually reach it. For example, how long have I been raving on about installing and configuring a mail server?
This brings me to my point. I recently discovered a US based hosting company called “Dreamhost” thanks to Shaun. My jaw dropped when I viewed how reasonably priced their hosting packages were. The “Level 1″ package offers 200GB of storage, 2TB of data transfer, unlimited MySQL databases, unlimited Domain Names and a very generous amount of users and mailboxes. The mailboxes come in a variety of flavours: IMAP, POP and Webmail - all of which can be authenticated over SSL. This package is valued at $9.95US/Month ($15AU) over 12 months. I estimate that Zingers costs $5/m in electricity, eats my upstream bandwidth and consumes time to maintain. For an extra $10, I can have professional hosting and offload all my troubles to someone else. UPS, Power generators, Internet connections are not my problem any more (Provided they work). In addition, I have three computers in my bedroom, two of which operate 24/7. This generates a significant amount of heat which I feel will become unbearable in the coming summer. With the server off-shore, I now only have a single computer operating 24/7.
Currently, tatey.com, Flora’s website and Boycott Sony are on the new Dreamhost server while Adrian and the Eagle Heights Centre remain on Zingers. I intend to migrate the latter two websites over early next week. Consequently, I have a new E-Mail address - tate@tatey.com. I’ll tell you what, IMAP is fantastic! I can finally use my E-Mail on my laptop, and check it from the web.
If you’re looking for cheap, reliable hosting, head over to Dreamhost and sign up. If you enter the promotional code “9999″ you’ll receive $99US off the total price.
October 26th, 2006 at 9:49 pm
Dreamhost FTW.
But your comments page CSS is broken.
October 27th, 2006 at 5:27 pm
Thanks for pointing that Owen, it should be resolved now.
November 1st, 2006 at 4:16 pm
It will be interesting to see how this goes. I still think a price like that is too good to be true. I dare you to use your 2tb.
Additionally, you’ve taken the link to your rss feed out of your header. That’s really annoying.
November 1st, 2006 at 7:13 pm
I haven’t actually touched the RSS at all. I suspect that it’s something to do with the website migration or the dashboard removal plug-in that I’ve installed. Either way, I’ll look into it. Thanks for letting me know.
November 3rd, 2006 at 8:43 am
Yeah, sorry for being a shit over it. Your feed has been 404-ing for ages in my feed reader, and I only noticed because I was cleaning out dead feeds and yours was one of them.
November 3rd, 2006 at 10:00 am
That’s okay, I’d have probably not known otherwise so I appreciate your input. I still haven’t had time to take a serious look. I spent a few minutes and couldn’t figure out why. Hopefully resolve the issue over the weekend.
November 3rd, 2006 at 10:56 am
Sweet.
klepas.org and kororaa.org are also both on Dreamhost servers. They run rather nicely; haven’t had any big issues with them so far.
November 4th, 2006 at 11:11 am
Really, I never knew that you were on Dreamhost as well. I know a few other people on DH. It’s scary the amount of people on DH