Gallery Returns
After an approximately 2-week hiatus due to changing web hosts, and
updating the software, the apt36.com
photo gallery is back up and badder than ever.
I’ve posted the most recent pictures from Monster Massive, last week’s
rave, let’s bounce as well as a couple of parties at the Manchester
House, etc. Take a look around: new items are set to appear closer to
the top of the page. Also, when you open an album, wait for the entire
page (all thumbnails) to load, so you can see the cool “lightbox”
effect when you click on an image.
The site should also be
significantly faster than before. This is due to the fact that I have
changed most of my domains over to Dreamhost, which is much
faster than my old host, 1and1. I wasn’t sure if dreamhost would actually be faster, since the sales person I talked to
didn’t really promise me the sky when I asked about performance. I was
a little reluctant to make the switch, since I had been with 1and1 for
over a year, and everything was going ok, aside from the fact that my
gallery wouldn’t run as well as I would have liked for it to run, but
I also wasn’t expecting much more from a shared hosting plan. I’ve
worked in the web hosting business long enough to know that I need a
dedicated server for the kind of shenanigans that I want to do online
And believe me, I’ve had dedicated servers. I’ve also had people
who were dedicated to hack into those servers, but that’s another
post. Anyways… once I switched over to dreamhost I was really
pleased with the speed of the database as well as the web server. I
have more than enough memory for my PHP apps, including gallery, and
if things stay as they are, I’m also really pleased with the overall
responsiveness of the system, as well as the control panel. On top of
that, the price was more than right: $19.99/mo for 400GB of storage.
Yes. Four-hundred gigabytes. Four terabytes of storage per
month. I wonder how pissed they would be if I actually used that
much… Unlimited domains. Unlimited databases. Unlimited e-mail.
WebDav. Frontpage. sFTP. SSH. Cron. CGI. Perl. SVN. PHP. Rails.
RealAudio. Quicktime… the list goes on, and it
definitely looks more attractive to me than 1and1’s list. And it’s the
same price, except no setup fee, 4x the amount of resources, etc. On
top of this, the amount of disk space increases by 2GB/week, and the
bandwidth increases by 32GB per week. In fact, the bandwidth limit
“accelerates” at a rate of 32GB/week/month, or 128GB/month squared
(128GB/mo^2). Needless to say, I’m going to cancel my current plan
with 1and1 and get a refund for the remaining portion of my account
balance.
Sweet dreams, that’s all I can say about that.
