Out of Cheese

In the run-up to Macworld I think it’s safe to say I was a little bit busy. I think I had one day off between Thanksgiving and January 10th. (December 25th, if you’re curious.) Just in case I needed something to make that time more interesting, the colocation provider where we’d hosted our server for a couple years, CCCP, ran out of money and told everyone to move their servers on fairly short notice.

I’m not surprised that CCCP ran out of money, since their philosophy was to provide colocation services to anyone for free with a “suggested” $50/month donation, ideally to help non-profits run servers. We paid our $50 via automatic bill pay every single month, but quite a few folks simply won’t pay at all when given the option. Somehow CCCP managed to survive for a few years anyway.

After a couple fairly disorganized weeks of trying to figure out where CCCP clients who were actually willing to pay for colo services could go, a bunch of us landed at Cernio. Our server is in a rack there now, merrily doing its thing while we pay even less per month than we did to CCCP. The move wasn’t really something I had time to do, but it seems to have turned out OK in the end.