Spending hundreds of dollars first

[nosrednayduj]

We run a server at home, for local email and web. You've seen links to it before from me (though sometimes I move files to somewhere on the other side of the firewall before linking them)

Sadly, it decided to scribble all over its disk last night. Fortunately we have backups, midnight every day, so we can get back all but the last little bit. However, this means we have to hare off to Best Buy this morning to buy a new computer and then spend a long time configuring it... We'll try to get a bike ride out of it, if the rain holds off.

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[apparentparadox]

We used to have a physical server in house, but have been very happy using a virtual hosted server elsewhere. One of the nice benefits is that you can easily spin up a new virtual host to try something out, and then cut over if it works or just stop it if it doesn't.

[nosrednayduj]

Interesting idea. What service do you use?