After much debate, I decided to move my web sites yet again. I’ve been renting a server from ServerPronto for a while now, but my use doesn’t really justify the cost. I was running a total of five domains off of it — three were my own, one was for a computer club at the local community college and another for an ex-co-worker.
I’ve no idea what the actual bandwidth usage was, but once a month when I received an invoice/statement from them, each one listed my bandwidth usage as 0%. My “limit” was 200GB, so it must’ve been less than 2GB/mo. January was probably actually different, as I seen a huge increase in traffic over the last month, primarily due to my posts about Blocking WMF at the Perimeter, the Windows WMF Vulnerability, and Monitoring for Sober.Y with Squid and swatch. The final count for January is just over 70,000 hits, I think.
Anyways, it wasn’t really economical for me to continue renting the server and hosting these sites on it, when I could get the same end result for less somewhere else. A year or two ago, I had my sites hosted at 1and1.com. I was really happy with their service and never had a single issue with them, so I looked into their options and finally settled on one.
I’ve started the process of moving the web and e-mail services over and am just about finished up. This web site has been moved already, but I haven’t yet got the photo gallery moved over. I’ll probably have to reinstall that from scratch and upload all my photos again. Oh well, it might be a good time to upgrade to Gallery v2. I remember hearing a few good words about Gallery v2 from weez.
I didn’t bother moving the sites for my little company, LinuxWiz Consulting or the Ivy Tech Computer Club. Lindsey, my fiancee, has been pressuring me to stop doing so much work “on the side” so I’m considering “shutting down” my business. The Computer Club wasn’t really using the website, instead choosing to keep everything on a site that’s only accessible to those who they’ve explicitly given access to. I registered the domain for them out of pocket and was paying for the hosting out of pocket, so to hell with it. They’re still welcome to create a site and use it if they’d like, but I’m done trying to assist and promote.
Anyways, e-mail is flowing, as evidenced by the posts coming in from the SecurityFocus mailing lists and I think I’m about to call it a night.
Three more days until my birthday, four more days until the Super Bowl! Go Colts! Oh… wait… nevermind. =)
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