The MacDeskBlog

3 October 2006

New server?

Filed under: MacDesktops, blog entry, servers and hosting — Ryan Walker @ 8:55 pm

I followed my friend John Engler’s advice, albeit almost a year later, and signed up with DreamHost. I haven’t decided yet whether or not to stick with them. Here’s what I’m weighing …

    Pros:

  • Designated MySQL server
  • One-Click installations of WordPress and phpBB, which I already use, and a couple of other products which I may start to use
  • Transparency about downtimes and service impacts
  • High disk and bandwidth quotas for a low price
  • Pretty quick responses from support
    Cons:

  • Doesn’t support MySQL database replication
  • Doesn’t support DNS slave setup, and some non-configurable entries in DNS management interface are incorrect, so their DNS is unusable for me
  • Downtimes and service impacts appear to be fairly common
  • Linux
  • Pretty inflexible responses from support
    Unknowns:

  • Performance under load
  • Database performance
  • Implementation effort required to replicate MySQL via scripting

So, that’s where I am right now. If you have any suggestions, I’d love to hear them here on the blog.

Downtime report

Filed under: MacDesktops, blog entry, servers and hosting — Ryan Walker @ 7:36 pm

The site was down from about 3am PST to about 10am PST on Monday. A warehouse about two blocks away was destroyed by fire, and the power lines which feed us run right in front of the building. Fortunately, no one was injured nor killed.

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