Archive for April, 2007

Springfest, OK Go, and Formal

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Yesterday was a very successful day for Megen and I:

  • We woke up and went to 3 different garage sales: Beachwood’s annual garage sale, a random one found off of Fairmount, and another at a church. We didn’t come home with anything but it was really fun.
  • Then came Springfest. We didn’t get there until late, maybe around 4:30, but still had fun. Neither of us are on the meal plan so we couldn’t get anything to eat but we did make an awesome frisbee for the puppy.
  • The conclusion of Springfest was a concert put on by OK Go. They sounded really great; much better than many other popular bands when performing live. We didn’t get to stay too long but we managed to snag two OK Go labeled cymbals from the bassist. The crowd got really rough at times and generally made it unenjoyable for a lot of people around them. Megen and I got fed up with them and moved over to an area with smaller, less violent people. Overall, a great concert.
  • We left the concert early to make our way to the last formal of our undergraduate career and my last big function with my fraternity. As usual, it was full of bad 80’s music and Phi Taus performing well orchestrated dances for their dates. Another tradition, the serenade, was present when my big, Adam Goodrich, sang to his girlfriend. I had a great time and I think everyone else did too.

Moved to Dreamhost

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

This blog (along with www.benandmegen.com and www.pop-secrets.com) are now being hosted by Dreamhost. This was in preparation for graduating in May. I won’t have a static IP address or a fast upload speed so hosting on my personal server wouldn’t have been optimal. Plus there would be downtime while I’m in Vietnam between graduation on May 20th and moving into my apartment on June 4th.

I went with Dreamhost for a number of reasons:

  1. $97 off coupon! This makes my first year of hosting cost less than $2 a month.
  2. SSH access to the server. I refused to use a host that doesn’t let me into the server to do my work…FTP doesn’t nearly cut it.
  3. 200 GB of storage and it goes up by 1 GB/week. At this rate I will never fill it, but it’s nice to be able to back up all my data. Plus this means I can upload a whopping 1 GB of photos a week and not worry about running out of space.
  4. 2000 GB of bandwidth/month and it goes up by 16 GB/week. My small sites will never serve out this much data but it’s nice to have!
  5. MySQL (as many databases as you want), PHP, and Python support!

I’ve read some problems with them…but really no host is perfect and, for the price and features, I’ll take the risk. If you need hosting, let me know. I can get you $97 off too (and in the process they will credit my account $97 for referring you; it’s win-win!).