Heads up on a new possible webhost

[jonastio]

So, we've been with our webhost for a bit now and they've done us pretty well. As technology does it's thing, stuff gets cheaper and available resources grow. I am running a demo on a hosting service I've subscribed to for a stupid-cheap price. The server has twice the resources available. The only caveat is that it's located in Ontario, CA. Now, I've checked with them and they've got no problem hosting a gun community website that also does private sales of firearms. Legally, it shouldn't be an issue either. If I'm happy with the system in the next week or two, I might move the website to there. Now, you guys shouldn't notice any difference. It should still be nice and peppy. The best part, it's a third of the cost of what I'm paying now. Yup. Hosting for $5.25 a month. I mean, it's so ridiculously cheap that it will be simple for even the small amount of advertising that is currently done to cover the fees.

Now, I'm gonna vet it first to make sure it's not one of those "too good to be true" scenarios, but it's pretty awesome.

It's not a guaranteed thing, but just a heads up on where my head is at.

[jonastio]

Believe me when I say I had and continue to have reservations about it.

[Greg Kulbick]

Ontario, Canada or Ontario, California?

[jonastio]

Canada. At least it's still east coast so it's still pretty much on some heavy east-coast internet pipe.

[jonastio]

So, I'm pretty happy with the service at the new webhost. I've got the databases between the two sites synced up and going. I'll likely make the swap in the next couple of nights.

NerdSpeak:

The neat thing about the new site is that I'll be using nginx instead of apache. Hopefully this will gain me some performance increases that will balance out the extra time it will take since the server is in Canada.

[Cattle/Horses]

If you are used to apache, you'll LOVE nginx!

[jonastio]

If you are used to apache, you'll LOVE nginx!

Apache has been my bread-and-butter for a while. I still prefer it in an enterprise environment as a front-end to *any* Java application server.

Nginx has been an interesting experience. The config is a bit different and in some ways cleaner. SSL is certainly a hell of a lot easier to deal with.

[jonastio]

If you are used to apache, you'll LOVE nginx!

Hold the phone. How does Captain Flip-Phone know anything about Nginx?!

[polebarn]

[jonastio]

I've made the change, though it might take a good couple of hours before everyone is over on the new host.

If you notice any glitches, give it an hour to see if it clears up. I should be verifying everything here in a while and we should be completely functional in about 12 hours.