New Host

About two weeks ago, the place that I had hosting the server that I run NJPineBarrens.com as well as this blog on, had some power issues resulting in a 24 hour downtime. I could care less if the blog goes down, but if NJPB goes down it’s a bigger deal.

I went and found a nice new VPS host - CarbonBlock.net. It’s run by a fellow SA goon so I got a good deal, and so far it’s been running great. Previously the site was running on it’s own dedicated Dell box. Now it’s running in a Xen VM.

I really love virtualization. My site’s running on someone else’s hardware, totally isolated, and I have root access to my server. All of that for not a huge amount of money per month. It almost makes me think of starting up a small shared hosting biz on another VM and moving some of the folks I do side work for onto it.