Jason Barnabe

As you may know, userstyles.org has had uptime and performance problems in the past. Based on past discussions with Dreamhost, my current host, the problem seems to not be one of bandwidth, but of server resources to generate my dynamic pages.

Now, I don’t really think I’m doing anything too ridiculous when I generate pages, so I’m going on the assumption that Dreamhost’s Ruby on Rails setup is less than ideal. To test this out, I’m going to try out a new server.

I have a copy of the site set up at 821use.owen.hostingrails.com, hosted on HostingRails.com. It’s not a live copy, so feel free to screw around with it. It currently has the main site (minus screenshots) and forum installed. It doesn’t have the blog or the Mantis installation yet.

I want people to try it out for a few days and see if anything is broken (or more broken than it is on this host :)). After that, I’ll point the userstyles.org domain to it and see how it acts. If it acts well, it’ll become the permanent home. If it doesn’t, I’ll take advantage of HostingRails.com’s money back guarantee.

HostingRails.com doesn’t provide nearly as much bandwidth or disk space as Dreamhost, but at the level of bandwidth I need it’s actually cheaper.

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