Thank you for all that you're doing, Gud!
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Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
javachik - Jan 02, 2018 9:10:26 pm PST #3961 of 4671
Our wings are not tired.
Jesse - Jan 19, 2018 7:42:12 am PST #3962 of 4671
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Here's a question: do we care about maintaining ownership of buffistas.com, .net, and .info? (I forgot to renew .info, so it's not currently there, but figured it was worth asking.)
I guess we really don't want anyone else on those sites, and it's not that much money ($15-$20/year with the current company), so I guess the answer is yes?
Just checking!
Laura - Jan 19, 2018 8:58:26 am PST #3963 of 4671
Our wings are not tired.
I think the .net is used from time to time. I'd say yes since it would not be nice if someone else grabbed them.
Jesse - Jan 19, 2018 9:01:45 am PST #3964 of 4671
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, I think that's right. I did all three for another year.
-t - Jan 19, 2018 3:41:27 pm PST #3965 of 4671
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, we don't want anyone else to have them. I have .info bookmarked but I am not sure why.
Tom Scola - Jan 19, 2018 3:46:42 pm PST #3966 of 4671
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
.info was for updates for whenever b.org was down.
-t - Jan 22, 2018 3:05:27 am PST #3967 of 4671
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Rings a bell.
Gudanov - Jan 26, 2018 5:28:33 am PST #3968 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
What would people think of moving hosting from dreamhost to digitalocean? They recently lowered the price of their VMs so a $10 a month VM would probably be plenty. A $5 a month VM might even be enough.
I think it would make things a bit easier from a technical matter. Partly because I'd kinda like to change the database to PostgreSQL from MySQL for reasons. I'm also thinking of using Rails instead of PHP for the backend because there is a lot more security baked in with Rails. Without realizing it, I've structured the PHP to be an awful lot a Rails app already and it makes me think I might as well go Rails and get those baked-in features.
amych - Jan 26, 2018 6:00:16 am PST #3969 of 4671
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'm a big fan of both DO and Rails.
I don't know enough about our specific challenges (seriously, one of these days I'll actually dig in to the codebase, I promise!) to have a lot of opinions on how those apply, but I trust Gud on that part, like, a lot.
Gudanov - Jan 26, 2018 6:07:41 am PST #3970 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
Postgresql is appealing since it has full text search support in the database.
Rails just does a lot of really nice stuff automatically in terms of security and having database migrations would be really nice if we need to change the schema at some point. Oh, and asset management too.
My PHP code plugs the weak hashing and SQL injection vulnerabilities, but I still need to harden post requests and a few other things that Rails just does.