So, I spun up a new Dreamhost PS to run my awesome new photographer site on, and it immediately goes down. Dreamhost posted about it at 9am yesterday (1/26/10), and it’s still down. Not cool. I had heard horror stories about DH before, but hadn’t had any problems with my other Dreamhost PS that Coupley runs on.
So after 30+ hours, I shut down that server and signed up at Linode. I was almost going with Slicehost, but read this performance comparison (found via Hacker News) and was sufficiently convinced otherwise.
So far, awesome. I followed their tutorials, and in 3 hours I set up Rails/MySQL/nginx, and updated my Capistrano config to deploy to the new server. After fiddling randomly with the nginx config, I can see my site! Well, to be honest, I can only see [domain].com — www.[domain].com doesn’t work. But I have time to fiddle with it before I launch. Still need to finish some testing.
Anyway, that all went way too smoothly for someone who knows only the bare minimum of Linux. But I’m not complaining. At least now if my site goes down, hopefully it’ll be my fault. :)
Tags: hosting deployment