Dreamhost offered me unlimited disk space and bandwidth for all my sites if I agree to have our sites upgraded to the new servers first. What this means for me is that I don’t have to worry about a lot of things I’d have to worry about if any of my sites ever blew up or got dugg or slashdotted or whatever. What this means for you is that this site may very well crash or be spotty for a period of time after they upgrade us. But hopefully things’ll go smoothly with limited interruption and we’ll be left with a much faster page that I can do more things with. Hurrah!

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I’m ditching Media Temple. The Scrab’s memory requirements are just too high for their basic (read: cheap) plan and it’s been causing all those Proxy Errors or Bad Gateway errors. Lucky for us, Dreamhost has just massively overhauled their Rails hosting system, so while you may notice the page is more than a bit slower (on average about 5x slower) than it was yesterday, it’s not unusably slow like it was originally.

If I get a few hours over the weekend, I have some changes to upload that should hopefully speed up the site a bit, so it shouldn’t be too painful for too long.