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.
Remind me of the particular reasons for the MySQL hate-on, again? A lot of things have changed in the most recent versions.
(also, noting that "hate-on" is an exaggeration for not-very-humorous effect -- but what particular features are you looking for from a switch to Postgresql?)
