Comments on: Moving Off Self-Hosted http://elwoodicious.com/2007/05/14/moving-off-self-hosted/ Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. —Voltaire Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:58:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: james http://elwoodicious.com/2007/05/14/moving-off-self-hosted/comment-page-1/#comment-1669 james Mon, 14 May 2007 17:17:12 +0000 http://www.elwoods.org/home/2007/05/14/moving-off-self-hosted/#comment-1669 Ha! Not a chance, 68! Outsourcing the blog hosting is just the natural evolution of leveraging untapped synergy present in pre-exsiting asset matrices. (ok, who won bullshit bingo this round?) ;-) Ha! Not a chance, 68! Outsourcing the blog hosting is just the natural evolution of leveraging untapped synergy present in pre-exsiting asset matrices. (ok, who won bullshit bingo this round?) ;-)

]]> By: james http://elwoodicious.com/2007/05/14/moving-off-self-hosted/comment-page-1/#comment-1668 james Mon, 14 May 2007 17:10:52 +0000 http://www.elwoods.org/home/2007/05/14/moving-off-self-hosted/#comment-1668 @Mike - Yeah, the streaming eats up a pile of bandwidth as do the file transfers to and from work all of which adds up to an average of 500 MB a day. I'm pounding the crap out of the connection which mostly is felt by me but is occasionally felt by people visiting the site. Hell, just approving Kirrus' comment resulted in a page load time of 38 seconds. Damn. don't even get me started on how poorly Jinzora has been performing lately under these conditions. @Kirrus - I did play a little with it during the first server evolution, as Mike can attest, I have a bad habit of building and destroying these boxes! I will look back into it though as it might just help with whatever future projects I tackle on this box. ;-) @Mike – Yeah, the streaming eats up a pile of bandwidth as do the file transfers to and from work all of which adds up to an average of 500 MB a day. I’m pounding the crap out of the connection which mostly is felt by me but is occasionally felt by people visiting the site. Hell, just approving Kirrus’ comment resulted in a page load time of 38 seconds. Damn. don’t even get me started on how poorly Jinzora has been performing lately under these conditions.

@Kirrus – I did play a little with it during the first server evolution, as Mike can attest, I have a bad habit of building and destroying these boxes! I will look back into it though as it might just help with whatever future projects I tackle on this box. ;-)

]]> By: 68stationwagon http://elwoodicious.com/2007/05/14/moving-off-self-hosted/comment-page-1/#comment-1667 68stationwagon Mon, 14 May 2007 17:10:44 +0000 http://www.elwoods.org/home/2007/05/14/moving-off-self-hosted/#comment-1667 sell the excess comm equipment on craigslist to fund the transition. 68uberfinancier sell the excess comm equipment on craigslist to fund the transition.

68uberfinancier

]]> By: Kirrus http://elwoodicious.com/2007/05/14/moving-off-self-hosted/comment-page-1/#comment-1666 Kirrus Mon, 14 May 2007 16:26:29 +0000 http://www.elwoods.org/home/2007/05/14/moving-off-self-hosted/#comment-1666 Have you got gzip compression enabled on your webserver? If not, try reading this: http://www.webreference.com/internet/software/servers/http/compression/ You may not have to move off after all: most web browsers nowadays have gzip compression capabilities built in. Have you got gzip compression enabled on your webserver?

If not, try reading this:
http://www.webreference.com/internet/software/servers/http/compression/

You may not have to move off after all: most web browsers nowadays have gzip compression capabilities built in.

]]> By: Mike http://elwoodicious.com/2007/05/14/moving-off-self-hosted/comment-page-1/#comment-1665 Mike Mon, 14 May 2007 16:07:05 +0000 http://www.elwoods.org/home/2007/05/14/moving-off-self-hosted/#comment-1665 By my calculations, 500 pages @ 40k per page (the size of this page) is a paltry 20MB. ??? By my calculations, 500 pages @ 40k per page (the size of this page) is a paltry 20MB. ???

]]> By: Mike http://elwoodicious.com/2007/05/14/moving-off-self-hosted/comment-page-1/#comment-1664 Mike Mon, 14 May 2007 15:47:36 +0000 http://www.elwoods.org/home/2007/05/14/moving-off-self-hosted/#comment-1664 You mentioned you listen to your mp3s remotely at work so that's going to be a constant hit during 9-5 to your bandwidth...just another example... You mentioned you listen to your mp3s remotely at work so that’s going to be a constant hit during 9-5 to your bandwidth…just another example…

]]> By: Mike http://elwoodicious.com/2007/05/14/moving-off-self-hosted/comment-page-1/#comment-1663 Mike Mon, 14 May 2007 15:45:11 +0000 http://www.elwoods.org/home/2007/05/14/moving-off-self-hosted/#comment-1663 I'm actually surprised that 500 page views/day (I assume that's what you mean by hits) saturates a 768kbps connection. I mean, that's half of a T1 basically. And these are just web pages, not video files. Unless something else is eating up your bandwidth and the refused connections are just a symptom of that... I’m actually surprised that 500 page views/day (I assume that’s what you mean by hits) saturates a 768kbps connection. I mean, that’s half of a T1 basically. And these are just web pages, not video files. Unless something else is eating up your bandwidth and the refused connections are just a symptom of that…

]]> By: james http://elwoodicious.com/2007/05/14/moving-off-self-hosted/comment-page-1/#comment-1662 james Mon, 14 May 2007 14:49:34 +0000 http://www.elwoods.org/home/2007/05/14/moving-off-self-hosted/#comment-1662 That is exactly what has made this such a tough decision but it boils down to control and flexibility versus stability and performance. At the moment everything is running on a 1GHz box with 512MB of RAM, which is holding its own for the most part, and a DSL line that is 6 mbps over 768 kbps. These days it barely just works with about 500 hits daily, the rest of the attempts get refused because the connection is just saturated--which really cramps my style if I want to do something remotely. We'll see, maybe my blog will come running back to elwoods.org. ;-) That is exactly what has made this such a tough decision but it boils down to control and flexibility versus stability and performance. At the moment everything is running on a 1GHz box with 512MB of RAM, which is holding its own for the most part, and a DSL line that is 6 mbps over 768 kbps. These days it barely just works with about 500 hits daily, the rest of the attempts get refused because the connection is just saturated–which really cramps my style if I want to do something remotely.

We’ll see, maybe my blog will come running back to elwoods.org. ;-)

]]> By: Mike http://elwoodicious.com/2007/05/14/moving-off-self-hosted/comment-page-1/#comment-1661 Mike Mon, 14 May 2007 14:33:06 +0000 http://www.elwoods.org/home/2007/05/14/moving-off-self-hosted/#comment-1661 Fortunately, my site is not popular enough to cause me any problems with self hosting! ;) I'd be quite loathe to give up self hosting, I love the control and never liked the contraints with hosting companies... Fortunately, my site is not popular enough to cause me any problems with self hosting! ;) I’d be quite loathe to give up self hosting, I love the control and never liked the contraints with hosting companies…

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