fettig.net

If you’re reading this, it means that fettig.net has successfully moved

to its new home - a virtual server hosted by

tummy.com. I wasn’t particularly

unhappy with my old host, but at $25/month for a whole virtual server, this

was too good a deal to pass up (thanks to the Twisted mailing list for

mentioning tummy.com, and thanks to tummy.com for hosting cvs.twistedmatrix.com

for free, which got them mentioned on the mailing list)

So now I have a my own little server, running Debian Linux, on which I’m free

to install my own software, run funky server processes, and pretty much

do whatever I want within the limits of the disk space and bandwidth I’ve been

allocated. Of course, the server itself only exists in software, but that’s

no concern of mine :-).

So far the service has been a dream. My server was up and running within five

minutes of filling out the order form, the connection is fast, and I’ve had

no problems with downtime. The customer

service has been very good, too. I wasn’t expecting to get any help with

administration -

my server, my job to keep up with

security updates - so I was highly impressed when, only a few hours after the news

broke about the ssh security flaw, I recieved an email from the tummy.com

people informing me about the problem and listing step-by-step instructions for

updating the ssh server on Red Hat and Debian.

I’m quite excited about the possibilities raised by having my own server again.

Stay tuned.

Oy. My day job is eating up way too much of my time and energy these days. I really want to work on Hep, and I’m tantalizingly close to getting a number of cool features up and running. But I have so little time, and after my work week all I want to do is rest up and do non-computer things so that I’ll be refreshed and ready to face my cubicle come Monday.

So, alas, this will probably be another quiet week for Hep development. Then the next week I’ll be on vacation, so I won’t be posting here or answering e-mail. I’ll be back on the 15th, at which point I’ll have some catching up to do at the old day job. So most of September is shot as far as being able to work on my personal projects. Sorry, folks.