A New Look
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This website just got a new look (with mobile layout), a new web hosting, and a new technology that powers it. I’ll post the summary in the coming days. And otherwise, just enjoy fewer lags and 500 errors. (Except today when I accidentally routed the traffic to the wrong Load Balancer. >_<)
I’ll be writing separate posts about these migrations, but here’s what went where.
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Website hosting moved from Rackspace Cloud hellscape of a single manually managed Gentoo Linux instance to Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. Apart from manually managing a VM, managing a Gentoo VM is its own special hell.
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Image hosting moved to Google Photos. Especially since Google photos is not as much of a walled garden as it used to be.
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Video hosting dies–why have it when we have youtube and vimeo. Yes, I had my own small video hosting service. I’m glad it died.
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Code hosting moved to my Github page.
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Private code hosting moved to GitLab.com which seems to offer free private git repo hosting.
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I will no longer host a Redmine instance at dev.coldattic.info. My toy projects such as Muni LED Sign and Evil Board Engine are on Github now.
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Email filters. The server used to run an IMAP filtering script that was scanning my gmail inbox and sorting mail. I’ve created filters in Gmail interface instead.
Non-essential services have been happily shut down. And I hope you’re enjoying the new site and 0ms page load times. Shoot me an email if something’s not right.