Site update
As part of the development of a strategy to consolidate a number of online accounts as well a series of planned enhancements, I have recently migrated this site to a dedicated server, provided as a Joyent Accelerator. The shared hosting provided by Joyent has been great. However, the time has come to upgrade. I think that I have everything working now, but if you come across something that looks funky, please drop me a note.
What does this mean to you? For now, nothing really, except page loads should be a hell of a lot faster. :)
Hi Kristie,
Wow. Thanks for the comment. I have to say that I’ve been very pleased with the Joyent staff, even sometimes when I feel like Im bugging the heck out of Filip with some of my questions. He and everyone have always been very responsive and patient and this is one of the primary reasons that I stayed with Joyent for my primary accelerator and also why I’ve moved my client from a shared accelerator to his own accelerator as well (this transaction completed just a few days ago).
The one thing that has puzzled me slightly between the two migrations is that my accelerator looks wildly different than his new one. The new one doesnt have any of the csw stuff and seemed to be much easier to work with, even though a lot of the items on the wiki and the forums were not correct. I was able to manage to locate everything I needed. The hardest part for my client’s migration was changing my capistrano scripts. I have to say that I wish that the skeletons for these were supplied by Joyent, rather than the community. It seems as though they would be more up to date.
My own transition was even easier: transfer SVN, transfer my WordPress folder, change DNS and I was done. Cant get much easier than that.
Thanks again for checking in with me. I’m not quite sure how you found me, but this was certainly a nice touch. Thank you!
The beauty of search these days is I can find most things. :)
I am happy to hear you have had good experiences, and I am always interested in how we can do things better - whether that be through customer service or documentation or product specs. So if you have more feedback, I would love to hear it. Just shoot me an email to kristie [at] joyent [dot] com.
The Accelerator differences you noticed come from a new template we just released last month and is what your client received. All the documentation for the new template is on the wiki, just hidden in the Facebook section as we launched the new template on that group first and built collateral around it. http://wiki.joyent.com/facebook:kb:start
The Support team is working on cleaning up the wiki and fixing the documentation. Our goal going forward is to make the Accelerators as easy to manage as possible and this new template was a step in that direction.
Cheers.
Hi Matt,
Glad to see the transition went well, and yes - the pages seem to be loading pretty darn fast. :)
Would love to know your overall experiences moving from the Joyent shared environment to the dedicated space on the Accelerator. If you care to share, shoot me an email at kristie [at] joyent [dot] com.
Cheers.