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[inaki]

Alright. I caved. Serverbeach made too nice of an offer, and I've started to move my websites in time for the upcoming end of contract with Bayarea.

It was fun managing my own server, but I have to admit its really nice to let someone else worry about it for a while >.>

SO! Everyone that was hosting with me! It looks like the old hosting will end on November 11th, and I've managed to set up hosting for most of the domains. Folks with VMs will want to contact me about possible domain hosting or seek other hosting.

Honestly I won't be sorry to see Bayarea go. They gave us constant outages and power problems, substandard service, and a poorly maintained datacenter (my last trip there revealed the datacenter to be holding at 95f!).

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[synchra.livejournal.com]

does this include me?

[baxil.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the early warning. I'll try to make sure tlands moves gracefully for once in its long and winding lifespan.

I could set something up through my ISP/employer; I'm not using anything exceptional with the current VM except for a MySQL database and a little magic with subdomains. But what sort of VM-alternative were you thinking of?

[smashwolf.livejournal.com]

As the person footing the $500/month bill for the past year, and only getting half of that from users, if that, and sometimes $700/month when there were bandwidth overruns, I'd really like some support moving to another location.

I have no love for bayarea, and want out of there, too, but the last year at bayarea has SERIOUSLY impaired my personal financial situation to the point where I am selling off fursuits and A/V equipment on ebay to make my house payment.

I'd hope the folks I bankrolled over the past year would have the heart to provide some assistance on a server for me to host on for the next year or so...

[baxil.livejournal.com]

Hey there,

Inaki's never asked me for anything for the hosting he's provided. In return, I've tried to chip in when I can, and keep my server needs minimal. I know this all costs money to keep running.

Please let me know (e-mail: baxil at tomorrowlands dot-org) how best to contribute. At the very least I can send a chunk of money now toward what I've used.

[inaki.livejournal.com]

I believe your domain is on Ksi's VM and he was making moves to set up his own VM server. If you want domain hosting on my box that can be arranged though you should talk with Ksi on it. He's not the type to just shut everything down, so you should be covered. =P

[inaki.livejournal.com]

well what I'm doing on the new server is basically domain hosting instead of VM hosting. Using a program called Virtualmin for managing multiple virtual domains on the same OS install. The nice thing about Virtualmin is I can put any sort of funky apache directives I want on a per domain basis, so I don't see a problem with handling your subdomains and such.

[inaki.livejournal.com]

Yes and I've been kicking you $200 a month since the start (though I need to send more once my paycheck is in. Sorry about that.) As well as other folks who DID contribute (once we got billing working).

As far as hosting goes. There's two options. If you want to continue to have your own server, I highly recommend Serverbeach. They had my box up and running withing 4 hours of ordering. They do the OS install, and you do the config (which I'd be happy to get you set up on Virtualmin. Its rediculously easy) and their servers start at $75/mo.

Alternatively if you just don't want to deal with that (totally understandable) I can see about rolling your domains onto my server as well and split the $130/mo 3 ways (me, solei and you).

So some of the things I've found about Serverbeach. My server has 2TB/mo of transfer, no 95% crap. The bandwidth so far looks pretty stable. If I go over my limit, its $0.30/GB. The systems ARE single HDD setups but they have a $10/mo backup program, and as well I'm just going to run offsite backups nightly (Virtualmin will schedule rsyncs)

The only problem with them is they don't allow IRC traffic, client or server.

So there's my suggestions. Both options give you plenty of hosting for under $100/mo. Let me know what you want to do.

[synchra.livejournal.com]

haha okay good, just checking. XD

[ksilebo.livejournal.com]

IMing you :P

[ksilebo.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have an ESX host here in Denver but its not going to be anywhere near as good as that setup. Just RAID1 likely.

[baxil.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it should work out; my other alternatives are basically the same (unless I want to go ghetto and run the site off of our crappy static-IP DSL line). One question, though: would shell access be available? Specifically not root access; just someplace where I could run my own shell scripts and install alpine for e-mail.