In life, everything evolves. Not quite the same as the Darwinian definition of the word but its a close metaphor. But, in the small, learning and adapting behavior to take advantage of knowledge sense of the word. That’s why animals, people included, migrate. Birds go where it’s warmer and the food is easy. People migrate around various web properties because they find value for their time there. Then a new shiny service starts up and they migrate again. It has been my goal to migrate my site away from shared hosting for a while now. At any given time I have 10+ vhosts on my various development computers. So in real life it is frustrating to need to escape the shared hosting handcuffs when I want to do something outside of a web, one click install thingy. Also, not being able to apt-get blah so I can try something out is annoying. Justifying the cost to my CFO, however, was never viable at the costs when I priced my options. Enter the new cool kid on the block: DigitalOcean. For $5 a month they give me everything I need to run my site in my own virtual server. It’s even less than the old shared hosting account I migrated away from. Yes, this is the first post to my new setup. Things left to do:
- Confirm that the DNS has propagated
- Cancel Bluehost account
- Migrate and modify the site’s back up script to the new host
- Go for a ride
