If you’re reading this post, that means raincitystory.com is on it’s new server. Well, not really A server but a cluster. Specifically, Media Temple’s GS (Grid Server Product). So instead of a single physical box, my site (along with thousands of others) resides on a cluster or group of servers. Sure, it’s shared hosting and I don’t have root (I’m learning and liking the giving up of control in all aspects of my life) but the trade off is more than worth it. I do get shell access which makes the administration of this little site A LOT easier.

As mentioned in a previous post, I’m getting out of the web hosting business. But not out of blogging. Instead of managing the servers 24×7 (outages, security upgrades, it goes on and on forever, etc) and paying almost $600 a month for colocation space and bandwidth, I’m gonna let the pros at Media Temple handle it. For $20 a month, I get 100 GB of disk space and a terabyte of bandwidth, plus peace the piece of mind that I won’t be getting paged at 4 am because mod_security is breaking some girl’s form being linked off MySpace. The days of running a site(or even worse, a bunch of sites) on a single machine are over. The grid is the revolution that definitely won’t be televised or noticed by most people.

Anyway, I’m half way done moving my customers so may not post much for the next few days.

Oh and in case you’re a geek like me, you may ask yourself “how does he know he’s really posting this on the new server?” Well, I logged in via the shell, called up mysql and did a SQL insert containing this text into the database itself.