The reasons? Well, in no particular order:<\/p>\n
Speed<\/h4>\n
My old host was dreadfully slow sometimes and I could never figure out if it was my site design and years and years of clapping odds and sods together and shoddily attaching them to the site or just them. Moving gives me a chance to experiment with a new provider and<\/em> to clean up a bunch of crud that has accumulated.<\/p>\n 2 more years of hosting on the old site was going to be $216 usd ($276 cad). Taking advantage of a “new customer” deal netted me 3 years for only $148 cad.<\/p>\n I have become increasing disturbed by the slowly eroding privacy laws in the U.S. L had needed a Canadian-based server for her research project last fall and I did a bunch of research on Can-based hosts. Since I was moving, why not move to a Canadian company and avoid any increasingly privacy-creep that seems to be the American judicial system. And I know, it really is more symbolic that actual, but still. Oh, and it’s “buy Canada” too! So I get loyalty points.<\/p>\n One of the things I noted when I was doing my research was that some hosting companies allowed python and ruby apps. It was a point of great frustration a few years ago that I had to host my apps on my home server. This new host allows such apps to be hosted. I probably won’t move my old ones now but any new apps can be hosted off my home site.<\/p>\n It took half a day of planning most of a day work to move everything and I am still not sure its been 100% successful. But I like puttering and I learned some shit so why not.<\/p>\n So far the only big downside is And I learned a lesson about my own back-ups as well. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I host a number of sites. And two more for C which are little more than placeholders but I keep hoping she will let me make her some spiffy sites. I also use a bunch of subdomains to direct web traffic to various projects and my home server. This is an offshoot of my handy Pi Nginx<\/a> project!<\/p>\n At least 4 site-specific email addresses. I have no idea why people shell out for mybusiness.com and then use mybusiness@gmail… seems a waste of resources. Most of them just forward to my existing addresses but at least one is standalone.<\/p>\n I have hosted api’s, static sites, otehr people’s domains etc. It gives me a lot of flexibility\u2014and as I mentioned above I can now host python web apps.<\/p>\nMoney<\/h4>\n
Canadian laws<\/h4>\n
Python<\/h4>\n
Downsides?<\/h2>\n
Time and effort<\/h4>\n
rsync<\/h4>\n
rsync<\/code> doesn’t seem o work on the new host. I will have to ask when I get to that point. Rsync<\/em> was what I used to deploy my hugo website automatically: syncing my desktop files to the server. I can use ftp in the mean time but just typing deploy<\/code> was a great way to update things.<\/p>\nWhat do I spend this money for?<\/h2>\n
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\nMy new host! Oddly enough L’s research project is hosted here and they suffered a nigh-on-catastrophic breach this past summer. Luckily, at least for us, everything was restored pretty thoroughly. So why did I pick them? Well I figured that the security breach probably taught them a huge lesson and, at least for a while, they are going to have some pretty hot and up-to-date security in place. And all the reasons above.<\/p>\nwebhosting<\/h4>\n
\n– macblaze.ca<\/a>\u2014my personal home since 2005
\n– neverforever.ca<\/a>\u2014our boating site
\n– astart.ca<\/a>\u2014my professional site
\n– theboozephiles.com<\/a>\u2014 my, L’s, C’s and Z’s cocktail site. Check it out if you like booze!
\n– beakerwood.ca<\/a>\u2014my brother’s woodworking site. permanently under construction these days<\/p>\n
\n– reluctantlyyours.ca<\/a>
\n– littlefirecreative.ca<\/a><\/p>\nsubdomains<\/h4>\n
email<\/h4>\n
various projects<\/h4>\n
A bit more complicated but…<\/h2>\n
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