{"id":25,"date":"2009-04-18T20:05:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T04:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kai.mactane.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/18\/back-to-my-usual-server\/"},"modified":"2009-04-18T20:05:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T04:05:22","slug":"back-to-my-usual-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/18\/back-to-my-usual-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to My Usual Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple of months of temporary hosting with <a href=\"http:\/\/a2hosting.com\/\">A2 Hosting<\/a>, I finally have my real server back online, at a colo space in San Jos&eacute;. Not that I have any complaints against A2 (heck, I even just gave them a little more Google-juice); they were perfectly servicable. But I&#8217;ve really gotten used to having my own box that I have root on and can do whatever I want with; by comparison, cPanel just isn&#8217;t enough.<\/p>\n<p>Possibly most important&nbsp;&mdash; certainly more important than I would have expected just a few years ago&nbsp;&mdash; is the fact that <em>now I have my SVN repository back<\/em>. I&#8217;ve recently checked in two months&#8217; worth of code changes. I wound up describing the extreme discontinuity as &#8220;the Spring 2009 Downtime&#8221;, because the first few ideas that drifted through my head just sounded a little too grandiose and overblown.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;m reminded of a scene in Joe Haldeman&#8217;s early novel <cite>Mindbridge<\/cite>. A team of interstellar explorers get sent off to an unknown planet via teleportation technology, wearing fully self-contained environment suits that keep them alive for two weeks. When they&#8217;re teleported back to Earth and a safe enviroment, Haldeman writes: &#8220;they scrambled out [of their suits] to an orgy of backscratching&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I know the feeling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple of months of temporary hosting with A2 Hosting, I finally have my real server back online, at a colo space in San Jos&eacute;. Not that I have any complaints against A2 (heck, I even just gave them a little more Google-juice); they were perfectly servicable. But I&#8217;ve really gotten used to having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,4,22,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagan.mactane.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}