Mind the dust!

I'm currently in the middle of testing out a new hosting strategy in an attempt to handle the greater load placed on my home's DSL connection. This work should result in a much quicker and even more reliable site than before.

For the first time in 5 years I flipped the 'big switch' on the DNS side from my home DSL connection over to a slicehost-hosted VPS (virtual private server). From my standpoint, everything will take exactly the same effort to manage from the software side, but the hardware concerns should be gone.

The past 5 years I've been wrestling with various ideas for how to get faster Internet service to my home so I could maintain my own hardware and have total flexibility over how I serve my pages to the world (mostly so I can just tinker around now and then). In the end, no good service materialized, and I couldn't justify the prices it would take to upgrade to even a fraction of the bandwidth I'm getting right now.

I expect that support.supermegaultragroovy.com (where FogBugz lives) will be down another day or so, but I can get by manually monitoring my support mail until then. Other than that, everything else should be working as it was before. If you do notice anything behaving badly, please do let me know.