It's been a while... but things have been a bit more complicated than I wished for. First, with the previous hosting provider: It took much more longer than I expected to get TDHD (The Damn Hard Disk)... Then, my internet connection at home broke and that didn't help (It's still not entirely fixed).
This experience taught me a lesson or two.
- "Real cheap" hosting doesn't really exist, or you necessarily sacrifice reliability, quick recover ability, or support.
- While waiting for the hard disk, I realized that I needed a way to get back online much quicker, so I started working on that.
- You guys really like the service and really wanted it back. The donations I've received were the most tangible proof of that. So...
- ... Thanks again for your donations and/or kind words!
- This service needs to find a sustainable way to continue to exist. I'll be working on that, and I'll keep you updated.
I've chosen linode as the new hosting provider. This is entirely different type of hosting, so I had to adjusts things to make it work with tight memory space. I've written Chef scripts to basically reinstall loudtwitter in 5mn, but hopefully I'll never have to use them for castastrophe events!
Well, I'm really happy to be back, and I'm looking forward to the future.
I'm SO glad you're back up and running!
Posted by: Dami | August 17, 2009 at 09:11 PM
All right! Welcome back, and thank you so much for building and running this site!
Posted by: Kelson | August 17, 2009 at 09:15 PM
they appear to be VPS hosting.. did u check there hardware repair policy? also if they dont work out maybe we could work out a deal check magicshosting.net!
Posted by: Brian | August 17, 2009 at 09:16 PM
@Brian, I've configured loudtwitter so that I don't have to repair the hardware, I'll just build a new virtual server and install everything there in a minimum of time, thanks to my script.
Posted by: loudtwitter | August 17, 2009 at 09:53 PM
Wait... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef_%28programming_language%29 That Chef?
Posted by: Miff | August 18, 2009 at 04:13 AM
Hi - thanks for coming back online. I like concentric.com and fatcow.com for hosting.
Posted by: RecycledBottle | August 18, 2009 at 02:20 PM
My heart metaphorically skipped a beat when I saw the email today. YESSS! I can't give you more than that, my excitement at your coming back. Thank you!
Posted by: xtnblue | August 19, 2009 at 09:48 PM
@Miff: no, not that one :)
@RecycledBottle thanks, but I already made my mind (linode) I won't change now as it means more downtime.
@xtnblue: Well, that's appreciated
Posted by: loudtwitter | August 22, 2009 at 03:44 PM
I like to you are came back. It's true. I really appreciate your work and appreciate you.
Posted by: ram | October 26, 2009 at 12:59 AM