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blog hiccups

Written by matt on December 31st, 2007

Last night I updated my Mephisto install and switched from awful dreamhost to awesome Joyent. Everything went well until the dreamhost control panel wasn't accessible anymore leaving my site broken for a couple of hours. This should have cleared up by now, but I'm really sorry about that.

I was hoping to launch the site from Joyent with the new design, but the designer isn't done yet :(

I wish you all a Happy New Year 2008.

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  • Brian on 31 Dec 08:49

    Hey Matt - I'm interested in your switch.. Do you use dreamhost as your domain registrar? What's your plan there.. Also, are you using some sort of shared host setup at Joyent or one of their dedicated plans. I can't quite figure out what is what over there..

  • Matt Aimonetti on 31 Dec 11:20

    @brian I bought my domain via godaddy.com and was being hosted at dreamhost. During the transition I added a DNS A record pointing to my joyent accelerator ip. The problem is that the panel wasn't available anymore and while I thought I disabled the hosting, it actually got reset and messed up everything. I then realized that godaddy offers DNS service for free. I switched the DNS to use Godaddy and pointed the domain to the IP and added the www CNAME record.

    Joyent is great but not cheap: http://www.joyent.com/accelerator/pricing/ (dreamhost is cheap but not great).

    I personally have a Large Accelerator hosting few apps and I'm planning on adding more in the coming year. Joyent is using Solaris and can be a bit tricky at first. However you'll find great capistrano recipes to make things really easy.

    If you don't want to go with Joyent, you can always look at http://www.slicehost.com/ but stay far away from dreamhost if you want to do any serious ruby/rails work.

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