Mu: Catharsis

After several months of procrastination and excessive tinkering the move from CoLo to VPS has been completed. So far so good. Most of the recent pain was spent on the email system. Anyway, enjoy the belated updates and new software.

Prior to moving to the VPS server, there were two instances of Apache running for borthermu.net. One was hosting the 'common' applications, like web-mail, mysqladmin, etc. The other was hosting the user sites (like this one). When moving the things over, I decided it would be nice to try and merge them together, and try to use only the Debian packaged Apache. This was mostly to get the benefit of security updates.

I just got word that our colo is going to jack up our monthly rate by about 40% next month. While it's been really pleasant having Marvin (this server), ten minutes from work, I'm not sure the extra sixty bucks is worth it. The problem with coloing in/around Boston is that facilities are very expensive. If I send the server to someplace in the Midwest, or to CA, prices drop quite a bit. However, distance makes recovery from hardware failures more problematic, and expensive. Leading me towards more expensive hardware.

Brothermu.net needed to be renumbered this weekend. Obviously in order to give DNS time to propagate, we wanted to run both old and new IPs at once for a while. However, since you can normally have only one default gateway, one of the two addresses would need to take an asymmetric route. Sadly, neither default gateways would route for the others network.