I moved us away from TextDrive and over to DreamHost last night. It was a painless process, since I mainly needed to change the DNS records and synch the files (there was an old version of the site already up and functioniong earlier in the week).
The entire process last night took maybe an hour, and that includes the nameserver updates being propagated [through America at least].
I don’t think there was any visible downtime, which is awesome. And there won’t hopefully be any frequent downtime from here on out. Such a nice feeling…
I’m sure people have been noticing frequent site outtages in January (and in the last week, multiple emails). Unfortunately, we’ve been having issues with our hosting company. Hopefully, we’ll get stable again soon. (Our host says that they’ll start migrating accounts to more advanced servers with better debugging tools starting this month, so in theory they can actually track and diagnose the specific problem. That’ll be a joyous day!)
We apologize for the inconvenience this is causing everyone. Maybe in the near future I’ll be able to get a dedicated T1 into my apartment and just host the site from here. But that’s a bit unrealistic at the moment.
Disclaimer: the contents of this entry are provided as a public service announcement and do not reflect Kaiser’s first official post.
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