I'll have to plug our numbers into their calculator and see where we fall. Looks very fancy.
Mal: Okay. She won't be winning any beauty contests anytime soon. But she is solid. Ship like this, be with ya 'til the day you die. Zoe: 'Cause it's a deathtrap.
'Out Of Gas'
Buffistas Building a Better Board ++
Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
§ ita § - May 06, 2008 8:46:57 pm PDT #1654 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Rob - May 06, 2008 8:49:07 pm PDT #1655 of 4673
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.
Deena - May 06, 2008 9:34:49 pm PDT #1656 of 4673
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I keep hearing really good things about A Small Orange. The prices on this page are per year.
§ ita § - May 06, 2008 10:09:45 pm PDT #1657 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
They have no PostgreSQL. What's with the hating?
Though MySQL may have caught up.
amych - May 07, 2008 3:59:22 am PDT #1658 of 4673
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
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?)
§ ita § - May 07, 2008 5:01:54 am PDT #1659 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The specific issue I'd had with MySQL no longer exists--they have caught up on the stored procedure front, for example. At the last inspection the only thing is that I'd started to re-architect the systm in PostgreSQL and used some features that it had that MySQL didn't. It's not a real investment, since the rearchitecture is mostly paperware at this point.
I am left with a residual "Hmm?" when PostgreSQL is excluded, though. Just on principle.
Frankenbuddha - May 07, 2008 7:02:43 am PDT #1660 of 4673
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Spoiler font leakage in Spoilers lite.
sumi - May 07, 2008 7:33:02 am PDT #1661 of 4673
Art Crawl!!!
Seriously? I checked and I used the short-cutty "s" command instead of the other thing.
Kevin - May 07, 2008 7:53:02 am PDT #1662 of 4673
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
PostgreSQL is generally lacking from web hosts, in a similar fashion to Ruby. A majority of hosts are either LAMP or IIS with MS SQL server.
§ ita § - May 07, 2008 8:16:26 am PDT #1663 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I checked and I used the short-cutty "s" command instead of the other thing.
When I went in there wasn't a shortcutty, because it was a whited out quote. The system then happily ate the closing t /font tag--I went in and put some spaces in after it. Needless to say the automatic tag closing code that was almost written many years ago now is high on the list of things to be taken out and shot against a wall when the Inquisition comes. Not only is it buggy, but it's philosophically flawed in that it edits the contents of the post and saves the edits to the database.
PostgreSQL is generally lacking from web hosts, in a similar fashion to Ruby
I haven't had much difficulty in general finding PostgreSQL. It strikes me as a mark of flexibility on the part of a web host. Even if I'm not using it, I like it to be there, just because I feel it speaks to there being techie room to grow in that environment. I've found Ruby less prevalent, but it's right there on my $6/month domain. Can't beat that with a stick!
It's only on my cheapo site where I don't care.