On the Move?
I’ve had about enough of Joyent’s harsh migration of TextDrive hosting customers. I have like three logins and passwords to different cartoon character-emblazened webpages.
What am I even subscribing to? Is it Connector, the snazzy e-collaboration suite, or perhaps StrongSpace, the online backup service? I don’t even know what BingoDisk is, but I may be buying that, too.
I just reupped for another year a few months ago (about the time we moved, I think). So I think this might be a good time to waste an amortized $70 or so and run two servers in parallel for a while.
If I burn too many bridges, I won’t have a way off the island. I pretty much disavowed the balrogs over at AT&T (minus the cell service, which is unimpeachable in Houston in my humble and regretful opinion), coining the now infamous “Shut it off, send me the bill!” rant over Skype. So, it’s looking like the floating rate bandwidth joy of cable internet when we get back.
I don’t think Comcast will allow the open inbound ports that AT&T was too stupid to block, so it seems that Internet Free Pearland will have to move somewhere else.
This makes me consider my old (I’ve been watching these guys for over three years now) prospect of Linode, which is such a cool little company it might be a lot easier to put up with downtime. Linode would also provide no-restrictions MUD hosting without Dynamic DNS, port forwarding, or other trickery. Plus just about anything else I felt like that didn’t consume an inordinate amount of RAM.
It’s twice as expensive as a normal shared host, but we’re talking serious features and flexibility here. Especially as the MUD nears testing quality: I could pick this up, leisurely migrate over from Joyent or whatever-the-heck, and have a midnight script that automatically kills the MUD, checks out nightlies from Google Code, and starts the server back up.
Plus, I can finally run a mailserver with a fixed IP, if I so desire.
And, the reason I write this all in the first place is that (1) Shell’s MI platform took a tremendously epic dump last night and has set back business reporting for a full day, and (2) I can’t SSH to Joyent or whatever-the-heck to get Cluster fixed.
Today is a good day. It’s all about the ‘tude!