So I realized today that my database has been down for two days without me realizing it. It appears that it just shut itself down at some point and never came back. I’ve decided to give Monit a try for monitoring and notification of bad things like this happening. Do you use something similar with [...]

I’ve been using VPSLink for almost a year now, and from a hosting standpoint they have been fantastic. Having my own Linux VPS has been nice but what I really wanted was one that would let me run FreeBSD and after a year of searching I finally found one: RootBSD I have fully switched everything [...]

I signed up for Dreamhost a little over a year ago.  When doing my initial research on value hosts this was, hands down, the best one.   I realized this last week while trying to set up a web interface to my Git repositories that I had outgrown them so I began looking for a [...]