The blog’s moving…
While I design and build a data center to host this blog (and run my startup!), I’ve temporarily moved this blog to my machine at home. Setting up something on home DSL connection with a dynamic IP address has been an interesting exercise!
Since WordPress is open source, I’ve been easily able to migrate all comments, posts and other stuff to my own machine. I had a cheap old box lying around which is serving as the web server. It has all of 384MB of memory, an AMD 750MHz processor and is running Ubuntu server.
Since I have no traffic on this blog to speak of, the machine should do just fine. Please don’t go and link any of these posts on digg, reddit, slashdot and other such places known to bring down even the heftiest of servers!
So now the new blog address is somewhat simpler and is:
http://www.gautamsworld.com/
Please excuse my nasty of habit of constantly changing themes. I’ll probably have to make one of my own as I can’t seem to find one I like!
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excused…!
The new link is asking for a password!
Unfortunately, that can sometimes be the case with hosting with dynamic IP addresses. See every now and then, my internet connection “reboots” and gets a new IP address. This new IP address is then propagated to DNS servers, but can take up to an hour (typically 2-3 mins though) to do so.
During this period, the original IP address can either be dead, or given to someone else. What this means is that you’ll either get a “404 not found” error, or try and connect to someone’s dsl router which requires authentication!!
Such events though are rare. Should be working now.