Insent, Typo.

My boss keeps talking about "spinning up app servers in the cloud", and I know he knows his shit, but this particular app is so integrated into our back end, including servers behind our firewall, I'm not sure how we'd actually pull it off.

It seems to be a better solution for apps that are going to run entirely in the cloud, or integrate reasonably...I am blocking on a technical term...formally and distantly via secured web services, and then there's firewall shit, and dblinks, and...just too complicated.

Yeah, everyone's all about the cloud right now, and what I need is a sandbox.

ita ! replied, but not very helpful I'm afraid.

dreamhost offers dedicated servers, and they are a pretty well known quantity.

Rackspace has been around a long time.

If you can make do with VPS, everyone I know says Linode is great.

My org's web IT guy says that Hosted Solutions is pretty good. WRAL, a local news station, uses them. Apparently they got eaten by Windstream a while ago, but I don't think that's affected their services. [link]

We won this is a test to see if Siri can understand what I say so I can speak my actual post and set of typing it.

Huh. Not too bad.

eta: "We won" should be "Hello everyone."

"and set of" should be "instead of."

What's Dreamhost like, valuewise? I default to them for my site that makes money, because they're reliable.

Polgara hosts important stuff with them, and when they got hacked she was hit pretty hard with stuff getting infected so she was thinking of moving, and they ended up cleaning up her shit for free.

I use Dreamhost for 1 Wordpress.org site and it's, I think, $69 a year? And I have never had a single problem with it.

ALSO!!

Guys, I have a new phone! Free upgrade day is THE BEST day! Samsung Galaxy S and it is such a smartphone. I LOVE IT LIKE CAKE already.

Dreamhost dedicated server prices

$99 a month seems in the ballpark for a dedicated server.

That said, I think Amazon Web Services is the way to go for what shrift wants to do. That way they'd only pay for what they use and they wouldn't have to maintain anything in between test runs.

shrift I can try to help you get connected to your first ec2 instancing, if you like. I've done it a couple of times, it's finicky but not impossible.

I can't believe I sat on updating from 802.11b this long. JESUS. Even though I only have a couple gigabit devices on my network, pretty much everything else is 100BaseT. No matter if the bottleneck is the internet connection, I'm doing a reasonable amount of communication between the various other devices *anyway*, and it's not like a little crack cocaine ever hurt anyone.

My brain likes to think the wireless is faster, and you know what? Why tell it different? No harm, no foul.

Anyway. Anyone on T-Mobile get regular messages telling you to restart your phone? My phone is complaining I haven't turned it off since February 28th, and that it should be restarted for optimum performance. Which, whatevs, except this comes up as an alert with an exclamation point and everything, which I'd really rather they reserve for something of import. Fine, I'll restart the damned phone to make it go away, but does anyone know of any other way (outside of rooting) to make it stop doing pointless stuff like that?