you will move!
For about ten minutes, there was a post here describing the pending move to Media Temple from my VPS account with TekTonic…
Until I found that I’d be paying an additional $20/month for their services on top of the $20/month hosting costs.
Cue tears of grief and anguish. Their services are so appealing but at the total price point for what I need, it’s just not worth it for me. So I’ve purged the post and scrapped the email I was about to send to the few people I still host.
I wouldn’t be nearly so pissed off about all of this if I hadn’t noticed this after I’d paid for the first month. For less than an hour of use, maybe they’ll refund my first month… But I doubt it.
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To be honest, I’m not unhappy with TekTonic but now that I no longer run a DIY web-host (and I don’t put much time into my own domains as it is), I just don’t need this level of finesse and control anymore. I’m genuinely sick of worrying about OS updates, security patches, software versions, and security on a hobby box now that my professional livelihood is made from worrying about OS updates, security patches, software versions, and security on hardware I get paid to maintain.
MediaTemple had edged out an account from Segment Publishing based on pricing and reputation (as MT is something of a shared-hosting darling right now), though I admit SegPub came highly recommended. I had really looked forward to not having to manage my own DNS server, IMAP server or SMTP server anymore.
In other modestly related news, the girl and I are moving yet again (five months after the last move). Our upstairs neighbor and apathetic landlord have gotten the better of us, and we are conceding defeat in the form of a 17-foot UHaul moving truck. Apparently they are the only local moving truck provider who bothers keeping up on their insurance policy.
Having already trashed one U-Haul truck in the original move to Massachusetts, I am wary of renting a truck without insurance, even if it is from the worst possible moving company in America right now.
Photos to follow.
12:32:34 AM Jonathan Yu: ryanmckern.com is junk
12:32:40 AM Jonathan Yu: it’s a neglected child
12:32:44 AM Jonathan Yu: it’s homeless
12:39:45 AM Ryan McKern: how i let a dude who lives at home with his parents make me feel bad about shit that happens on the internet i’ll never know
12:39:56 AM Jonathan Yu: hahaha