My webhost suspended my site… somehow it was using >20% CPU and they didn’t like this (despite it being most likely their own fault: I fail to see how a single, low-traffic Wordpress blog on a properly configured server could hog resources like that). So they took my site down (would have been nice if they’d told me – I only found out when I tried to log in and got a 404 page), and now they’re holding it to ransom… they won’t put it back up or even send/let me download my data unless I pay for a ~premium~ account and get reactivated, and they won’t refund the charge for the premium account even if I only use it to recover my data and then get the hell away from them. Fuck 000webhost, basically.
So, given that I have a static IP address, plenty of RAM and (after a quick Google search) a nice tray based headless VM manager, I’ve set up a Debian server here instead – I’ll probably move it to a low-power dedicated box at some point, but this will do for now.
Still got a few plugin-related tweaks to do probably (and, as I can’t remember what I had in my Links sidebar before, feel free to comment with links to your sites and I’ll put them in), but yeah – here’s to fresh starts. :)
The downside being we'll go down every time the power does. The upside being that now we control everything. The other downside... leaving the computer on while we're visiting Ireland... eep...
ReplyDeleteI maintained my own hardware for the better part of two decades, it's the ideal situation if you don't mind the occasional bit of system administration it entails. And as long as you have fault-tolerant hardware you'll be okay leaving the server on for days or weeks on end. The only reason why I don't still maintain my own hardware is because of my recent move across the country; it was far more convenient to switch to a virtual host solution--just one less thing to worry about during the move.
ReplyDeleteI used to self-host ages ago (before I moved to LiveJournal) and have been meaning to start again for a while... the fuckery with my webhost was just the push I needed, heh.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure my mam can be trusted to check on the computer when she comes to feed Boris - nothing more complicated than "if the blue lights aren't on then the power must have gone out at some point, so press the big square button to turn it back on", right?
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