Update on Troubles.

Posted on 09 January 2009 by Brian Levinsen.
Categories: Eldaria, Everything.

Ok so I have transfered the pictures, it took 2 days. :-(
But they are there now. However it does not work.
I am currently hosting at a provider called Dreamhost.
And not only was it super slow to transfer, but I can not get the album to work.
And I’m 99% sure it has to do with the way they built their servers, it is super slow, and basically the album times out.

So I will for now leave the blog there, but will set up one of my older computers to act as a web server for only the album, unfortunatly it is not so fast hardware, but at least we get the album back online, please note that I have no backup running on this server.
I will try to do this tomorrow, I’m too tired today from work, so will take it a bit easy.

For the future I’m thinking of some different solutions, Since my current server is not working, and I have identified it to be a problem with the mother board and possibly one of the harddrives, there is little I can do now, due to tight finances.
For the hosting in US I pay about USD380 for 2 years, this hosting is expiering in April, and I’m not sure I will renew it, it is too slow, and does not work really good.

Additionally I am paying electricity to keep my home server on 24/7, Now that was not a problem before, since it was included in my rent. :-D
Now it is no longer included, so although electricity is not so expensive in Sweden, and My electricity is Green, I buy from a company that only sells Electricity from Windpower, it is still an extra cost. ;-)

So I was thinking of building a new server, and put it in a co-location.
This is more expensive than having a web hosting, but it has a lot of advantages.

First, it is still my own server and I decide what to do with it, how much hardware is in it, etc.
By Co-locating it, it will be in a secure environment and have a high speed link to the internet(Electricity is included). :-)
Cost: about 60 Euro per month + initial cost of building a server that can bo co-located(different casing and cooling system).

Other option is when I have some more money I will just fix the server I have, and put it back online keeping it at my house, it has worked for many years, actually I had a server online since 2001, have a look here: Internet Archive
And according to The site monitoring service That I signed up for back in 2005 I have an average uptime of 97.835% since June 2005. Pretty good I think. :-)
Cost: Some electricity, not sure how much actually, have not calculated how much it uses. + some Hardware to fix it up.

Well for now and until april I think we can survive with the temporary solution.
Let me know what you think, in the comments, or by mail, msn, Pigeons, smoke signals.