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from a few people recently that my website is responding unusually slowly as of late. I generally don&#8217;t notice this much myself (as when I&#8217;m at home everything goes over the local network), but I have been noticing that the traffic indicator light on my DSL modem has been <em>very<\/em> active lately.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a few things that could account for that amount of activity and the speed issues, but my guess is that it&#8217;s simply that while my DSL line and aging webserver were fine for my needs a while ago, I&#8217;m outgrowing them.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, I&#8217;ve got a 1.5 Mb\/sec incoming, 768 kbps\/sec outgoing DSL line, and an old 350Mhz G3 as webserver. I&#8217;ve set my server up to host two domains for myself (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.djwudi.com\/\" title=\"djwudi.com -- redirects to michaelhanscom.com\">djwudi.com<\/a>, which is currently essentially unused, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelhanscom.com\/\" title=\"Eclecticism\">michaelhanscom.com<\/a>), one for my dad (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanscomfamily.com\/\" title=\"The Hanscom Family Weblog\">hanscomfamily.com<\/a>), two for friends (Kirsten at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekmuffin.com\/\" title=\"geek*muffin\">geekmuffin.com<\/a> and Phil at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interalia.org\/\" title=\"A Few Simple Things\">interalia.org<\/a>), and I found out a while ago that Phil has set someone else up on my server as well (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreesha.com\/\" title=\"harelip paradise\">patreesha.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago, none of those site were getting enough traffic for that to be a major issue. As the sites grow, though, and as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\" title=\"Google\">Google<\/a> finds more and more pages to send people to, I&#8217;ve simply run out of server horsepower and bandwidth.<\/p>\n<p>So, I think it&#8217;s time for me to pare things down a little bit and look into external hosting options. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windycitymike.com\/\" title=\"Musings of a Chicagoan\">Mike<\/a>&#8216;s given his hosting provider, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingdot.com\/\" title=\"LivingDot\">LivingDot<\/a>, a good recommendation, and their packages look better than both <a href=\"http:\/\/laughingsquid.net\/\" title=\"Laughing Squid\">Laughing Squid<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\" title=\"Boing Boing\">BoingBoing<\/a>&#8216;s host) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.logjamming.com\/\" title=\"Logjamming\">Logjamming<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wilwheaton.net\/\" title=\"Wil Wheaton\">Wil Wheaton<\/a>&#8216;s host), but I&#8217;m open to suggestions if anyone else might have any.<\/p>\n<p>This won&#8217;t be an &#8220;overnight&#8221; thing, so there&#8217;s no danger of me suddenly pulling the plug on any of the sites I host. I already knew that I&#8217;d have to be disconnecting my server for an as yet unspecified amount of time when I move in with Prairie in a few months, so the end of August is something of a &#8220;drop dead&#8221; date for me to get all of this taken care of. My sites may move over before then, depending on affordability and how much of a PROJECT the transition becomes, but I&#8217;m not about to just drop my friends&#8217; sites into the great bit bucket in the sky. :)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a bit of a bummer, as I&#8217;ve enjoyed having the ability to host things on my own, without having to worry about storage space (I&#8217;ve got around 100Gb of drive space on my server) or bandwidth caps (as long as I pay my bills, Speakeasy doesn&#8217;t care how much data I pump in or out over my DSL line, or limit what I can or cannot do with my server)&#8230;but after a while, even I have to succumb to the reality of the situation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FsongTerm=Under the Milky Way%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Under the Milky Way' on the iTMS\">Under the Milky Way<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DChurch, The%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for Church, The on the iTMS\">Church, The<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FalbumTerm=Never Mind the Mainstream%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for Never Mind the Mainstream on the iTMS\">Never Mind the Mainstream<\/a><\/em> (1988, 5:00).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While my DSL line and aging webserver were fine for my needs a while ago, I&#8217;m outgrowing them. 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