Going to be switching web hosts

Posted in Commentary on August 31st, 2005 by Sacha Peter

For the longest time, this site has been hosted on my cable modem. Now that there are some dirt cheap web hosting providers that give you hosting services for multiple domains for a cheap price (US$6.95/month), I think it’s time to port over my web services to this. Eventually I will move my mail service as well, but I have to figure a clean transition plan as my @rdix.com mail is quite important.

In addition, this is a good opportunity for me to learn Moveable Type and switch from Greymatter.

I guess what I’m saying is that if you see the site down, it probably means that I’m fiddling around with DNS or something else. I want to be able to disconnect my server system.

On a total side note, if my computer takes 100W to be running, and electricity prices are $0.0605 per kWh, it means that it costs $4.32 + taxes to keep it running just in terms of electricity. So the marginal cost of using a dedicated web host is about CAD$4, plus the fact that I don’t have to provide bandwidth or the capital costs of providing computer hardware. Web hosting has gotten fairly cheap.

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2 Responses to “Going to be switching web hosts”

  1. Roland Tanglao says:
    August 31, 2005 at 5:24 am

    Hmmmm, why not switch to WordPress or Drupal (disclaimer: my company, Bryght, runs a Drupal hosted service)? Both are free and open source and lots of bloggers use them. Nothing wrong with MT; it’s an awesome system but it’s not free and it’s not open source.

  2. Sacha says:
    August 31, 2005 at 5:50 am

    Thanks for the suggestions – I mentioned MT because I thought it was the de facto standard out there, but I’ll be more than willing to look at other alternatives, including WordPress or Drupal.

    General concerns include:
    a) Price, I’m a cheap bastard and need a free content posting system,
    b) Simplicity, I don’t want to spend forever fiddling around with parameters and stuff, and
    c) Portability, in case if I want to turf it, I can always reload my previous articles.

    It’s entirely possible that I’ll just stick with Greymatter, depending on how I find things.

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