As you might have read earlier on this blog, I’ve been self-hosting this website along with a lot of friends and clients on a rented server at EasySpeedy. I have done this for about 18 months, and it’s been fun to have my very own webserver with 2 GiB RAM and the works, but as I’ve come to realise, this is a huge waste of money and resources.

Its officially a very long time since I last blogged here. The year 2007 has proved to be very interesting so far. There’s been a lot of activity at my church lately, and work has also been busy. Our fiscal year ended december 31^st^, and since then, we’ve been quite busy in the accounting department. On top of that, I have all the technical stuff to take care of as well. Servers needing maintenance, printers needing fixing, offices needing relocation, hardware needing to be bought etc. And then there’s the websites.

After a rather nasty episode with a DDoS attack and a lot of trouble with my webhosting-provider, my site is finally back.

In other news, I've disabled comments on the site, since I currently don't have the time to deal with all the spam that's coming in.

As you might have discovered by now, I've changed the theme for this website. I downloaded a theme named niftyCorners, and now I intend to customize it. I look forward to getting a design with a bit more character on this page.

Also, Drupal was updated yesterday, so I've updated all my sites to 4.7.1. It went like a breeze. Good job, Drupal-people.

[img_assist|nid=43|title=A truly monstrous printer|desc=Our new printer, the HP 3550N. Big, isn't it?|link=node|align=right|width=100|height=48]In other notes, we got a new printer at the office yesterday. It's a wizzy color laser printer, the HP Color LaserJet 3550n. It is a really good color printer, actually, and it was a breeze to set up on my computer, due to the nice linux-drivers HP provides. But most of all, this printer is really big. I have taken a picture of it, dwarfing our fileserver and even my old 19" screen. It's just huge. Enourmous. Monstrous.

So, I've changed webhosting-companies. Now I use TextDrive.

I won't go into a long story about what has driven me to this, but all I can say is that I've had a lot of trouble with hosting in the past, and now I've gotten to the point where I've realised that cheap hosting is… cheap. And for a reason.

So now I pay a lot more for it, but at least I'm sure it works the way I want it to. It's definetely worth it.

To those of you that use Drupal, I can recommend TextDrive. Drupal is positively flying on their setup.