Black Friday came and went, and this year and I did not buy a thing, since the day after Thanksgiving is Buy Nothing Day for me.
And I bought nothing.
And I feel fine about that.
My poor colo server is taking quite a beating. I serve a bit from my colo, which is located in downtown SF at United Layer via NetPublishing. The box is an old Pentium III 1Ghz with 512MB of memory, but it is leased and the cost is pretty low for what I get.
I have a few more wiki’s and blogs I want to launch in the coming months, and even with the small amount of traffic I get the machine crawls during peak times (noon and 6pm) as everyone goes online to edit the wiki, comment on blogs or view photos. I typically have a memory use of 786MB, so I’m swapping like crazy, and the system load is almost always 3 (that is, three processes are waiting for 1 CPU to become available).
I’m now in the market for a new colo box. I talked to Greg, the colo provider, and he says he can spec out a new machine for me, which means I might get to finally run FreeBSD 6 (horray!). Moving to a new machine is going to be a pain, as I have had this machine for almost 2 years, and in 2 years I’ve collected a lot of databases, shell scripts, and odd configuration files to get everything working well. It is sort of like moving to a new house, you find all this broken stuff, and stuff that makes you wonder why you had such stuff to begin with!
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