Back from the dead
I know. I should know better. And I should.
And I know. I should have been quicker getting back online. And I should have.
But I didn't. And I wasn't.
And now I'm finally back from the dead.
I lost the first version of this blog - a self-hosted Wordpress install - when my hosting company lost the database and the backup of the database, which was stupidly stored on the same drive. After ridding myself of them, I moved over to a hand-crafted Django blog hosted by Slicehost. Like an idiot, I didn't spring for the $5 backups because Slicehost had a great reputation and ridiculous levels of redundancy.
So of course they had a catastrophic raid failure. Blog, gone again.
I've been busy since the crash. I'll write about it soon. Needless to say, I now pay for the backups -- Slicehost was exceptionally apologetic and I enthusiastically keep my business with them -- and I have my own backups stored elsewhere.
What's changed? Running Django 1.0. Static media hosted on Amazon S3. A vastly simplified structure. And plans for more features.
A lame first post for being gone so long, but it's after my bedtime. More to come soon.
Comments
Craig's comment on Jan. 18, 2009 11:23 a.m.
Glad you're back. Now dazzle us with some new technologist stuff, 'k?
Mason's comment on Jan. 18, 2009 10:25 p.m.
Have you found it worth enabling Amazon's CDN goodness on you S3 bucket?
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