State of the Starport

[mdlbear]

As of yesterday, all of my (operational) domains are hosted at Dreamhost, and thestarport.org's email has been moved over as well. (So far only steve and colleen have mailboxes there; since it's been overrun with spam for the last year and I'm the only one still reading email there, I don't think that's a problem.)

Tasks still remaining include:

• make email posting work. I may be able to do that just by setting the appropriate smart host.
• Finish configuring the new gateway/router
• Downgrade my account at rahul.net to something minimal, upgrade my AT&T UVerse connection to a static IP address, and dump my DSL account at sonic.net.

All this is stuff that should have been done at least a year ago. Possibly two, in the case of moving the hosting to DH. Better late, and so on, but...

Is it normal to feel down, maybe even mildly depressed, after accomplishing a long-delayed, scary task? I've been listless all day. It was certainly easy enough, and nothing went wrong that I couldn't handle quickly. I suppose some of the reaction might be coming from knowing how long I've been putting it off and how foolish it was to have done so.

So instead of feeling productive, proud, and accomplished, I end up feeling lazy and stupid. Could that be part of why I keep putting things off? Probably.

Comments

[ravan.livejournal.com]

Actually, their downtime has decreased markedly over the last few years. OTOH, if you're only running a hobby, personal or low traffic business web site, you really don't need 3 or more nines of uptime. They do have a twitter feed that does tell you of any issues they are having.

[mneme]

It varies; they had a bunch of issues in the last year or two; some days with a lot of hours without mysql access (which broke my mediawikis until they brought it back up) and I think they managed to break mailman about 3-4 times in the past year. I think this is "one nine" uptime, at least if one counts only 100% uptime as up, but it's still reasonable enough (barely) for a hobby site.