Screw Charter Cable.

[penk]

For those frustrated with Homeport outages (as we have another one now), I'm making the decision to start migrating critical services (CONGO hosting and IRC) to a Linode.

I'll keep ya'll posted.

Comments

[ifman.livejournal.com]

We had a brief brown-out here half an hour ago. Could your outage be connected to that? My home cable was not disrupted, though.

[penk.livejournal.com]

All the hosts should power back up automatically except for one machine...

Doesn't mean I don't still hate charter :)

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

Two other machines on that circuit rebooted simultaneously, and I can reach them, so I agree this is looks like a power issue and not a cable provider issue. For once!

[dbang.livejournal.com]

FWIW, the problem started with a power outage, so maybe that should be Screw National Grid.

[penk.livejournal.com]

Hmm. They should have come back up. Would you be willing to go into the server room and check stuff for me? Call me on my cell or text if possible.

[jasra]

So frustrating for you. :(

[ckd]

Hmm. I'm interested in hearing about how you like it; I'm seriously considering moving some or all of my home stuff to a hosting setup, and virtualization is definitely a major feature. (Though they don't claim to support FreeBSD, I bet I could get it running in their environment....)

[penk.livejournal.com]

So far I'm pretty happy. My debian linode came up in under 8 minutes from "Yes I'll do this" to "ssh hostname..."

$19/mo is hard to argue with.

[agaran.livejournal.com]

It would be a pity to lose your input, your counsel, and your financial help in the on-site bandwidth cooperative.

[penk.livejournal.com]

I'll still cooperate and put in my 2 zorkmids, but managing my own servers is getting far more work than is worth it anymore. I may have a physical failure going on now - I really am not looking forward to finding a new power supply.

I just created a linode host out on the net that is up, running, pinging, and ready to have my apps installed on it - in 8 minutes - cost for that host? $19 a month.

It's hard to argue with that. :(

[agaran.livejournal.com]

> It's hard to argue with that.

Very true! Shoulda done it long ago, perhaps. Wow, that's a really good price.

[dbang.livejournal.com]

WTH is a linode?

Sounds like a skin disease.

[penk.livejournal.com]

Funnnnny lady.

http://linode.com/

A Linux Node. it's a virtual server in a huge cluster of machines.