Now that this whole "Oh god I'm going to be spending 38% of my income rent" thing is kicking in, I need to tighten my belt. I'm spending upwards of $700/month on hosting ... and I know I can do better.

This week's goal is to start moving some of the smaller projects onto Dreamhost, buying a new server from EV1servers that will be powerful enough to consolidate all my dedicated servers to just this one.

Tonight I wrote a script that will allow me to handle all old aces, lca, and jbiel URLs gracefully by 301-ing them to their new location on S3.

I signed up for a DreamHost account which is where I'll host smaller projects (like listfoo, audiomatch, and swarmf) until they require more powerful hardware.

The new server I've ordered from EV1Servers will host all databases, as well as all Tabulas files.

I'm shutting down large-scale hosting (but will continue to operate small-scale hosting through the NeoPages.net server at NetworkRedux).

Phew, this is gonna be a buttload of work, but if I finish it, I will successfully cut down my server fees from $700 to about $350.

It's gonna be a long week...