I’ve been self-hosting this blog for a little over two years and it has been at once a crash course into Linux server administration as well as being just plain fun and while I enjoy it self-hosting does have a major impact on how I can use my connection. I’ve seen traffic spikes, though nothing in the order of being Slashdotted or Dugg, but enough of a swarm to kill services and occasionally knock my DSL offline all of which can be very frustrating and irritating when I want to connect to the terminal server or just run some updates via SSH. So after laboring over whether or not to move the site for the last couple of months I decided to plunk down $5.99 and snag elwoodicious.com.

It is odd the sort of emotions I have about migrating the site. Self-hosting offers so much control but without and industrial strength pipe growth is limited and stability pretty sketchy. Yet, it is my home. I built the walls, raised the roof, and laid the floors, so to move to a hosted solution feels like I’m leaving behind something unique and even precious. I feel almost like I am betraying all that work over the years not to mention that it has been a point of pride for myself.

My goal in moving is to provide a more stable home for this site and in turn open up my server for some new and different services for myself and my family. I’m looking deeper into SVN and VPNs to give us a little more flexibility and security when we travel. I’ve gone just about as far as I want to with the current style of hosting and would like to branch out into some different services and administrative tasks.

This site itself will migrate wholesale over to elwoodicious.com and I’ll keep the blog up for a couple of months before replacing it with a redirect. Hopefully, the move will be relatively painless and I’m looking forward to snappier performance.