After some deliberation, I've decided to move my server out of my house and into a co-hosting location; I simply can't afford the bandwidth anymore as my site continues to grow (I never would have thought I'd get anywhere near the amount of traffic I'm getting at this point...the activity light on my router blinks pretty much all day, plus I'm sick of the administration overhead of trying to run 3 boxes, I need to get back down to 2). Any recommendations on good .Net hosting companies? Before I do that, I'll probably go ahead and launch jaysonknight.com, meaning I'll just start redirecting all zerotrilogy.gotdns.com traffic over to jaysonknight.com (right now it's vice versa). I still have lots of tweaking to do the .Text db though to make sure everything is in order (correct URL's, etc). I have also decided not to use CommunityServer 1.0 as the foundation for my new site; there is simply still too much not right with that package (but it looks incredibly promising). Perhaps 1.1, and most definitely 2.0 as it's been stated it will have a stable API by that point. So, really not a whole lot will change besides the URL itself for a bit.
But, before I do any of the above, I'm finally breaking down and getting a laptop of my own. I've usually had one issued to me via the various consultant gigs I've had and have come to realize they really are invaluable (well, I always knew that...but didn't realize how much laptop you can get now for not a lot of money, cost wise it's actually more effective to replace my desktop with a laptop instead of buying a new server...my desktop machine is actually a server box that I've used as a workstation, so now it'll be my server). I can get this machine completely tricked out (2.0ghz, 1 gig RAM, 60 gig 7200 HDD, 128mb graphics) for under 2 grand; I think that'd make a killer desktop replacement. Of course, this is the machine I really want (just released by Dell...read the specs, that thing is a beast and still only weighs 8 pounds), but I just don't think I can justify the extra cost. That is a sexy piece of hardware though...yum. Unfortunately, even if I could afford it, it wouldn't ship for a month (according to the Dell website); there's no way I could wait a month.
Again, any recco's for a hosting company is greatly appreciated. Cheers.
Posted
Feb 27 2005, 06:02 PM
by
Jayson Knight