DannyStewart.com is moving to a new web host. This means that I will no longer be hosting this web site on my own server. Instead, I will be paying for hosting from a professional web host (
SCG Domains), and henceforth the site will be run courtesy of their services.
This is being done for two reasons, one of them professional and the other personal. The personal reason is simply that I have an increasing desire lately to own as few things as possible and to be responsible for less in my life. Having a server and keeping it running is a substantial commitment, and one that it doesn't make much sense to keep going, especially for something that is more than just a hobby (which this web site is).
From a professional standpoint, it has been made clear to me that I simply cannot provide the level of site uptime that you guys deserve. It doesn't make sense to run my own server to manage my web site if I can't provide you guys with the level of service that you should have. My dad has the unfortunate tendency to break the network connection that my server runs on (and to be honest, I have an unfortunate tendency to break the server itself). I don't want to make this site inaccessible to you all for periods of
days at a time (like what happened last week). It took several hours for me to notice that the site was offline, and then a matter of days for us to simply visit the location where the server is stored and fix what was a relatively trivial issue. So from now on, you guys will have guaranteed 99.9% uptime. Additionally, I had not been backing up any data from the server. Our new host will manage daily backups of all our site content for us, so there's no risk of data loss.
So within the next few days we will be moving to a quality web host, and from there the site should continue to shine and function much the way it always has. You guys won't really notice anything different, except perhaps some greater speed and reliability, but I'll be happier knowing that this site that I am so proud of is hosted with someone who will take better care of it than I have.
Thanks for reading.