The upgrade need and plan make a lot of not-charging-down-some-geeky-route sense to me (I'm very prone to the shiny distractions, but that's for personal flooping around and I appreciate the relative caution here; but it's time that an upgrade is really needed.)
OTOH, that's just a vote of confidence and not practical advice -- I have no clue at all about what the market's like for dedicated server hosting for projects this size.
And, as others have said, I'm always happy to donate -- I try to do so when I remember anyway, but if any unusual push is needed for a board-health project, just say.
As a complete surprise I received an email from our website host that said I could move to a new faster server with more room and it would cost less. An hour or so downtime for the transition. I didn't see the downside and moved. They actually refunded me for the past few months that we paid at the higher rate. Still shocked, but a month or so later no problems. (ICDSoft)
but I don't see how our code is that crap
Certainly not for us! Have we looked at other sites recently? This board = a beautiful thing.
So I guess it's down to financial feasibility. And timely commitment on my part.
I wonder if looking at Amazon EC3 for deployment makes sense now? I know a lot of web startups are using it because it is cheaper than dedicated servers.
Please to elaborate? I'm on the phone so googling isn't practical.
Actually, its Amazon EC2, and it's a service they provide where you rent virtual machines by the hour. You can run any software you want on them.
It's hard to be sure, but I'd guess that we'd spend less per month on that than on our dedicated server.
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I'll have to plug our numbers into their calculator and see where we fall. Looks very fancy.
For the startups it's particularly attractive, since money they spend on their own hardware is money wasted if they end up being acquired by a bigger company with it's own server farms. They also have the option to ramp up and down fairly quickly in case they get slashdotted.
I keep hearing really good things about A Small Orange. The prices on this page are per year.
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They have no PostgreSQL. What's with the hating?
Though MySQL may have caught up.
