Well, I was all set to order the new server and put it at he.net when they send me an email announcing that all of their virtual host accounts (that's what we have now - where you share a server with a bunch of other people but it looks to you like you're the only one on it) have been expanded. So as of this month we have twice the storage space and a great deal more bandwidth for the same price.
I still want my own machine, but now that there is less urgency I can't pull the trigger. I'm learning a lot of unix by working in OSX so I'm steeling myself to tackle the server I bought last year but never really used. If I can get linux and everything else running on that box, and can convince myself that it is reasonably stable, then I will just ship that one off. This will be about half the cost of having them manage a machine for me. Of course if something goes wrong it will be my fault instead of theirs.
Not sure what to do. I almost wish they hadn't sweetened the deal. In any case, upload away.
OK, I'm sending out the TIFF files now...
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I still want my own machine, but now that there is less urgency I can't pull the trigger. I'm learning a lot of unix by working in OSX so I'm steeling myself to tackle the server I bought last year but never really used. If I can get linux and everything else running on that box, and can convince myself that it is reasonably stable, then I will just ship that one off. This will be about half the cost of having them manage a machine for me. Of course if something goes wrong it will be my fault instead of theirs.
Not sure what to do. I almost wish they hadn't sweetened the deal. In any case, upload away.
- jim 1-06-2002 7:07 pm
OK, I'm sending out the TIFF files now...
- alex 1-06-2002 10:23 pm [add a comment]