kief

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This site has been down for a couple of weeks, thanks to a problem with the hardware I have been running it on for years. Unfortunately I don't really have much in the way of spare hardware for my personal use, so I couldn't just whack it onto another box. Also, I had my server at the offices of a company I used to work for, which meant that working on the box required me to ask one of my old work pals to hang around with me for a few hours after work while I tinkered with it, which I wasn't comfortable with. So I ended up just taking the box home. I thought I would host it at home at the end of my DSL line - although it's only 256K up, which is peanuts for a real internet server, for my dinky personal site I thought it would be OK. But I kept having problems with the hardware, even though I do have another, similar server, it was having the same problem, which I think came down in the end to some bad RAM that I inadvertently swapped between boxes. But never mind, although I could have gotten the thing working, I realized I just don't need to be spending that much time on the hardware issues. I do that sort of thing at work, so it's not a learning experience for me, it's just a chore. In the end I decided to sign up for a virtual hosting service. This is something I never wanted to do, as someone who builds, runs, and develops Internet servers and software for a living, using a crappy ol' virtual host would be a serious comedown. But I didn't get a crappy service, I signed up with verio , who I've used before for the (since sold and neglected) Web Developers Journal . They've always been technically excellent, they give a real virtual server, with root access, onto which I can install anything I want, run multiple sites, etc. The last point was the key selling point for me, I didn't want to just host kief.com somewhere, I have a handful of other sites I run for myself, family, and friends, and the new server has room for everything and new projects I'd like to be doing. The last point is the key thing, I'd rather be spending what little spare time I have working on the interesting bits of my own projects, rather than wrangling the hardware. Welcome back to kief.com!

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