Hosting switch, goodby ServerBeach, hello TextDrive
I’m been running a low end dedicated server from Serverbeach and sharing (well, everyone chips in…) it with friends, but it has gotten to be a bit of a hassle, so I’m gonna get out of the MIS business, and just handle my own stuff, and move to TextDrive. The most worrysome thing has been just keeping up with security patches and trying to avoid a zero day exploit – amazing to me, even ssh and ssl have bugs that lead to breakins, and once someone’s in, if they can install a rootkit you probably have to reinstall the whole system. Secondarily, I’ve always had trouble with getting a reliable tomcat up and running and trying to get the JVM to not be a memory hog.
Textdrive seems to have it all – ssh, svn, imap, spam filtering, reasonable amounts of disk space – only thing I’ll miss is tomcat, but I need to spend less time at this. I’ll miss playing with Lucene (as I did so on Searchmorph, Newsmorph, and Stockmorph, and would have if I could have launched Bookmorph, and then there’s Blogmorph…), and will investigate using pyLucene and python if I get a chance.
