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jmac.org (and gameshelf.jmac.org and appleseed-sc.com) is mostly back up, and should stay that way, because I fully expect Linode to do me right where Tektonic has failed. Please let me know if anything seems amiss; gonna keep the old server running for a little while (at a different name) just in case.
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Web services on jmac.org are hosed. I have a plan for fixing it, which I will start immediately and then continue as time permits; I'm in the midst of some time-sensitive Appleseed work that is of greater priority. I will post again with further status updates, as they come along. Things should be permanently better before next weekend.

Part of my plan involves migrating hosts once again, this time moving from tektonic.net to linode.com. Stating here that I am very impressed with Linode's service, which Planbeast now uses, and disappointed with Tektonic's. The latter was OK when I started using it last year, but either it's gone downhill fast or I was just lucky for a while. I have lately found its service unreliable, its online diagnostic tools faulty, and its customer service quite lacking. Bummer.
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Jmac.org web & email has gotta move again, and soon. [livejournal.com profile] daerr has been my latest kind host, but his machine is falling apart and he's planning on bailing soon. I figure that, after more than eight years of hoboing this domain around, it's finally time to move it off of FriendlyNet and into the realm of paid-for hosting.

Any recommendations for hosting solutions? I am assuming that, since I want me own MySQL tables and Mason-based websites, I am too much of a control freak for Dreamhost, but feel free to tell me otherwise. (I don't need mod_perl, so long as Mason works.)

I am leaning towards getting a virtual user-mode Linux thing somewhere. They're more expensive, but you can go crazy on them. OTOH you have to do your own sysadminning, and enh.

I politely decline in advance offers to host on your own server or your friend's server or whatnot, thank you anyway. (Unless your friend runs a legit hosting business.) This will support, among other things, my professional identity. I need to be able to yell at someone when it falls over, without feeling like I'm stretching a personal favor thin.
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Any of y'all have any hosting recommendations? It is time to run screaming from CalPOP, who has been rebooting us a lot lately, usually with no explanation. We got rebooted twice this past weekend.

[livejournal.com profile] daerr thinks the machine's ethernet card is failing, but we are pretty sure they are too incompetent or lazy to do anything with this information if we told them. When I call to say that the machine isn't pinging, and suggest they look at the card, their solution is to reboot and forget.

We looked into the Amazon thing, but it's too complicated for our needs right now. We just want a single, RAM-heavy computer somewhere that we can run a Debian server on.

No "friends and family" plans, please. We want to pay for this.

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