Moved to Seattle
Posted By Jim at 7:39:13 on 2008-01-24
Many of you already know this, but I've moved to Seattle as of last week. My phone number will stay the same but everything else has changed. If you have web work you want done please contact me I'll be settled in this weekend.Jim
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Rethinking hosting
Posted By Jim at 12:05:56 on 2007-03-12
For the last year or so, I've been thinking to myself, "dude, you could run your websites off of a Linux server and cable modem if you weren't getting hammered by spam."You see the biggest chunk of bandwidth being used by my server is for email. And the biggest chunk of bandwidth used for email is from spam. I send maybe 20 messages a day. The remaining web portion of my bandwidth is pretty tiny compared to my email and wouldn't screw with my web browsing or my VOIP. I just gotta take care of the email and the rest is easy!
What to do... what to do. My hosting company OLM has been nothing but great, and $75/mo for a dedicated server isn't that bad. But right now, it's an email box and there has to be a cheaper way.
And there is. I've found a third party email host, and that's all they do, host email. The service is cheap, $21 per quarter ($7/mo) and I get a smoking hot webserver in house that I can do with as I please with. Now I just have to divide my domain into parts.
A VS. MX
With a domain you can point different services to different hosts, and this was the key to making my little scheme work.
I took the web part or HTTP which in domain parlance is called the A record and pointed it to my server here at the hizzy. I took the email part of the domain, the MX record, and pointed it at my new email host.
On domain, two specialized servers. And little richer and much happier Jim.
By the way, if you're reading this it's on my home server.
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Windows
Posted By Jim at 9:55:06 on 2007-03-01
New Windows virus.It's a good time to look at Linux and Mac.
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Celebration of Cultures
Posted By Jim at 8:53:24 on 2007-02-26
It looks like I'm back on board for the Celebration of Cultures website. Working with the great staff of the Scarritt Bennett Center last year we pulled off an unbelievably large database driven site within just two weeks. This year we've got time to do it right and I know we'll pull off something phenomenal. Permalink |
Email Campaigns
Posted By Jim at 8:37:50 on 2007-02-26
I've done a ton of work Harpeth Shoals and their condo project The Braxton, including both websites and The Braxton logo that you see on billboards all over town. I love working with this company because they allow me stretch and do some really classy stuff.I just finished up an email campaign for the opening party of the marina coming up in March.
But the coolest is the Construction Cam, which is on the front page of the HSM site. Check it out for a live view of how this enormous project is progressing.
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