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JBoss Web Hosting

A few weeks ago I finally decided to go for web hosting of my software and websites. I needed more than simple web hosting, though. I also needed a JBoss and a MySQL server. I found all of that in a company called eApps. It's costing me $30/month for all of that, plus I've installed their Subversion server as well. That's a lot better than the $40/month package that I currently have with Cox. I'm almost finished with the transition and can soon cut off the Cox home power user plan and just go back to their regular plan.

This is, I think, part of the future called "cloud computing". Not only are these companies giving you hardware to use, but they're offering applications as well. I don't have to worry about downtime or upgrades. That's all taken care of for me. Also backups, although I still worry about having backups for what I think is my most valuable data, which right now are my blog entries. Luckily, I can set up their MySQL to make a backup onto my own local copy of MySQL (my blogsite stores the entries and comments in the database).

So now photeus.com and soon encyclopaedia-wot.org will be served from eApps instead of my home computer.

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Posted at 07:43PM Jan 27, 2009 by Gary Kephart in General  |