Hello and Valentine’s wishes to all!
Love is in the air, and I’m in love with my new webserver that I purchased this week.
After a dreadful relationship with EasySpace and their EasyVserver, I decided to break up, having the service for a month and having working access for about 24 hours.
I will still use easyspace for domains, and small website hosting that I don’t put on my server but that’s all.
My new service is with the ultra-cool media temple. A looker no doubt!
You can have a look at their services at http://mediatemple.net/, I have gone for their entry level Grid service, but I understand they will soon have a faster more reliable cluster service (coming this year). I will no doubt upgrade, but for now having a solution that works fills me with love. I will soon have my new website up and running on this server so more news on that soon. The only issue I have had so far is that it’s been a little slower than my previous service, but it works and that is a big plus!
I’ve also been getting acquainted with my NAS in the last month, and that has been a difficult, but I think I might be finally falling for the charms of the little Thecus N299.
Inside this cute little box you will find 2x500GB hard drives that I have set to mirror.
Getting this box working was a nightmare I have to admit, first up SCAN recommended 2x1TB drives for the box, which it later turns out are incompatible. The fan also sounds like a low flying space cruiser, so if you are interested I would recommend getting hold of a nice quiet replacement fan (http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=555F) before you get a headache… And you will, configuring this annoying little box can be very frustrating.
Still as I said, touch wood, I now have a NAS that is mirroring all my data and being seen by my whole network. When I’m feeling a little more adventurous I’m going to set it up as a media/itunes server and see how that works. All these features are built into this little bundle of chips. More on our ongoing relationship soon.
As for work, well I have recently hooked up with a new flame in the dotdigitalgroup. Our brief fling so far has been on me building templates for their new group site http://www.dotdigitalgroup.com/ but I think we are both hoping to do some more work together in the near future. Check out dotDigital and their range of products and services, the most well known are dotMailer and dotEditor.
It’s been proposal crazy this month, and without going into too much detail if one or two of those come off I will be mega busy… Fingers crossed.
Well I think I have done enough relationship and feeling puns for one blog post, so I will LOVE you and Leave you x