Back in business
After a ridiculous amount of downtime and laziness, I am back with my 99.99% up-time guarantee. It was down for longer than a month, okay, I get it. I’m sorry.
I know, okay, I know. The internet was a cold, heartless place without me. It was a gloomy day with no sun in sight. It was like being covered with a chocolate haze of sadness. It was probably like having a winnebago and then all of a sudden, you don’t have one anymore. Quit bleeding. I had to get my shit together. I was spending $60/month USD on a dedicated server over at cari.net. I got a “deal” on their Celeron D. I mean, it was pretty impressive:
- Celeron Dual-Core
- RAM 1GB
- Storage 250GB
- Transfer 1300GB
Too bad it was in California. That’s like having the hottest girlfriend in the world, but she lives in slow motion. How much would that suck? You ate dinner yesterday and she’s still eating breakfast. Wrap your dome around that, trick. J/K, J/K.
That server’s great and all but I’m closer to Dallas, Texas than I am California. I used cari.net for a project about 2 and a half years ago but I think we used one of their New York partners data centers instead of their California datacenter, anyways point is it was slow, crainbandy wasn’t getting enough traffic to justify paying for 1300GB/month and only using 5GB, or whatever amount it was, I’ve since lost the log files and don’t really care to be honest.
Crainbandy, meet Linode.
I switched hosts to linode.com. Linode uses Xen for it’s Virtual Private servers. Having attempted to setup Xen and XenServer I can testify to the stability of these platforms. I also have a friend who switched to linode recently and we were messing around with Ruby on Rails on his server, that’s when I decided to switch. It’s a VPS but it’s fast, it’s scalable and very affordable.
For $20/month I get (extremely low latency, obviously — about 20ms ping response time):
- RAM 360MB
- Storage 16GB
- Transfer 200GB
It’s $240/year vs. $720/year. I think that’s a better deal.
Anyways, I’m back. Crainbandy is back and we have bandwidth to use, so tell all of your friends about me.
All of them.
I’m f-ing serious. “Follow me on twitter” gah.
Encore: iPhone, Objective-C, Groovy/Grails, CodeIgniter — all coming up this week. Get ready for crainbandy.
scadeusche.
Bryan
