March 18, 2006
Zoinks! New Server!
Our basement has moved. I mean the stuff on a server in our basement has moved. I'm not sure exactly where it is located, but it might be in Atlanta. You'll have to ask these guys.
Thanks to the magic of virtualization (specifically, Xen), we have rented a little slice of a machine out there on the Internet. It's cheaper than renting a whole machine, but it still acts like it's an independent piece of hardware. Anyway, for slightly less than $20 a month, we can stop having the sites go down every few days due to DSL glitches. And pages should load a lot faster now, too!
But mainly, I feel like a new homeowner. I've got a home out there, on the big Internet, with real bandwidth. Well, for $20 you don't get a whole ton of bandwidth, but it's better than our 384 kbps DSL connection. Time to start experimenting. I've already set up a test mail list server, for example, which wouldn't really have worked at home.
Posted by Billy at March 18, 2006 07:49 AM
That's fantastic, Bill. But can you still post comments on the weblogs?
I see that you are writing to yourself to test things, so I thought I'd help out. It's cheaper than a liver!
Love your new explanation of where things ... either are or aren't. It's kind of like the Heisenberg principle. You can either locate the home base but you can't tell ... or you can tell ... but you can't locate the home base. What goes in the blank? (This is a test. I have no idea what the answer is if it isn't "pathway to the home base," but that doesn't seem to fit in the second instance because if you can tell teh pathway, then you should be able to determine where the pathway ends. On the other hand, there may be no Heisenberg principle corollary operating in this example -- which then becomes a non-example -- at all.
That leaves one purpose possible if nothing else works, and that is to confirm what your post already showed -- that the comments can still be posted -- AND perhaps to save my liver if you accept such an outcome.
Time to go to school and work.
Love, Mom
Thanks, Mom. I really appreciate your posts on my weblog. But umm, I don't fully understand this one. Although I have to admit to not saving your liver when it was in trouble -- you did that all on your own. But I did eat some of the candy.
I would write more, but I can't put links in this comment. Ooh, I wonder if I can change that ...
Ah ha! I think I have allowed it now! Let's see if it works. What I wanted to say was that Georgia has a new
website. Did it link? Let me save and find out ...
