Arcane Palette Creative Design » artistic graphic design

It’s time.  As much as I like the freedom of being able to manipulate the server environment directly, having the server about a foot away from where I type this, it’s time to move the site to a new home.  Our feeble internet connection isn’t nearly sufficient enough to support our burgeoning business.  Maybe someday someone will lay fiber-optic cable and we can again host our site on our own dedicated server, but until then, faster and more stable is better.  We are using 1and1 which has flexible plans and options for just about any kind of website or webmaster, including low price dedicated servers.  These guys are good, they have huge 2 page ads in Wired Magazine and my experience with them has been flawless.  What you really want in a web host is for them to be invisible — you want to do your own thing and never even know they’re there.  1and1 has given me that, and so, in my book, they’re up there with some of the best hosts I’ve dealt with.

There’s a few things that will be missing with this move.  I had a lot of development and test and sandbox environments on the old site and I don’t think I’ll be moving those over.  However, for theme development, I’m planning on using WordPressMU and giving each theme it’s own blog — which will include themes we build for clients.

The other thing that will be making the move (although it may be down for a bit) is erin’s sketchbook, which I’m really trying to push as a way to showcase her art.  My own blog and domain, jazzsequence, will stay on our local server for the time being, but eventually I’ll move that, too.