While I write this, the new server that will house this domain is being initialized.
We’re moving to Linux. It’s going to be a real pain to transition for everyone, including you.
I need to figure out how to easily transfer 100+ email aliases so that none of my email gets lost. I need to reorganize the site structure into something coherent before deploying it - and this will probably break every permalink I have. I’ll need to upgrade Apache from 1.3 to 2.0, install Subversion (client and server), upgrade MySQL, transfer the databases, reinstall WordPress, and reconfigure the site to find all of the moved files.
I’m going to miss Remote Desktop. I’m just not familiar enough with Linux command-line tools to work as quickly as I can with Remote Desktop.
Why am I moving? The primary reasons:
- MySQL is not configured properly on my Windows box, and I doubt it ever could be.
- Limitations of PHP in IIS pevent me from using different configurations on different sites, and doesn't let me use the presumably faster ISAPI version (all of the PHP.exe processes were draining my resources) since the path information on the non-CGI version is passed to PHP scripts incorrectly.
- I'm tired of not having a real mod_rewrite.
- The Subversion server must run under Apache to get the permissions I want, and running Apache with IIS is just stupid.
- Every freaking module to extend IIS that I want costs money, even the really simple ones, and the equivalent Apache module does not.
I looked everywhere reasonable for the longest time to find an acceptable host for this project. The problem is that shared hosting usually only offers a pathetic 6GB of space on the outside, unless I want reseller hosting. And of the places I’d be comfortable hosting as a reseller, I would be paying as much for a tiny bit of space and bandwidth as what I would pay for a whole server here.
Assuming that I’m willing to put in the effort to play Linux admin again (and hey, I’ve done it before), why would I waste my money letting someone else tell me I can have only 6GB of space and 300GB of bandwidth, when I can have 60GB of space and 1TB of bandwidth?
Hosting sucks.
Anyone want to share this box with me? I’m hoping it’s more than I need, and I would really like to not pay for all of it. The fraction that you would get would be larger than what you can get anywhere else for the same price, but I sould call the support “shoddy” - and note that when I say that, I’m talking about me being the sum of the support.
Inquiries from serious parties may be entertained. Or I may just rescind this whole offer, depending on whether this server comes back up in a functional state or a trouble-ticket-spawning state.
