This site had a minor outage this morning. It seems that between 7 and 8 AM the site was completely unavailable. When I brought this site back online I switched to a hosted solution with Dreamhost. It’s laughably inexpensive per month and they provide some great utilities to manage your domain. A lot of popular server software is available as a one-click install.
Anyway this morning I noticed the site was down so I used the panel to ask for support. They were able to verify that the site was down and within 15 minutes it was up again. It’s pretty great service if you ask me (I don’t care if you do or not). This site is hardly critical but it is nice to have it online on a regular basis.
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I’m hosting with them as well and actually subcontracting accounts out to four other people which makes it beyond laughably cheap.
My one minor complaint when I signed up was that they had CVS hosting but I’m a fan of Subversion. Since then they’ve added SVN hosting in addition to other crazy things like quadrupling storage space and whatnot.
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that would explain why i couldn’t check my email at the board to see if the school was in fact closed, as was reported on the radio. so i went to school anyways.
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Yeah if I were smarter I would have looked up some of the many coupon codes available out there for Dreamhost but I just wanted to get everything set up right away.
I noticed the SVN support which is great progress! I think they’re a really great hosting company.
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