on Sun, Mar 06, 2016 by Maartje Eyskens · 3 min reading time
Follow up on my last post. Somebody at OVH decided that 7 days warning is enough to pull the plug at RunAbove (even 0 days for their extra storage disks). 7 days later somebody noticed maybe a migration guide would be handy telling that the VPS SSD replaces the beloved HA S (see last post for why not). Lucky we just had moved all our services away to not OVH.
on Wed, Feb 17, 2016 by Maartje Eyskens · 3 min reading time
I am a big fan of OVH. They got a great network, best DDoS protection, very good pricing, nice hardware but they made a mistake with their cloud. More than a year ago we at Innovate Technologies migrated many of our services to the new cloud service under the sub-diary of OVH called RunAbove. They had a nice offering. Sandboxes, with SSD, 2 or 4GB memory and shared resources. Great to develop on or run a small unimportant server.
on Fri, Nov 27, 2015 by Maartje Eyskens · 1 min reading time
Last week we enabled HTTP/2 on all “new” infrastructure at SHOUTca.st, serving all ITFrame API requests, Cast streams and album art faster. When updating the Debian based servers today I also took the time to upgrade my blog here. Let’s encrypt As you can see I also changed from CloudFlare’s TLS to Let’s encrypt (a few weeks ago). They were friendly enough to let me in for the beta test.
on Fri, Nov 20, 2015 by Maartje Eyskens · 3 min reading time
At SHOUTca.st, we’re working hard. Developing new products and bringing you improvements to our current services. But sometimes I feel it’s not clear to everybody what we are doing currently on the development side of things. That’s why I’m running a new blog series to explain the things behind the scenes of our development. This series is called “Meanwhile in Git” as we use Git to work on our internal projects.
on Tue, Sep 15, 2015 by Maartje Eyskens · 2 min reading time
Scaleway is a great idea. Using self-designed ARM hardware to host small applications on and being able to offer it at a price your Amazon instance can barely boot for. In fact I moved my blog to there and be able to run it on my dedicated supercharged Raspberry Pi like server and still have enough power left to play Angry Birds (if only that was possible). Their vision is to horizontal scale your apps over several small machines.