Balance of life

Yesterday my website got a little upgrade, I was after a long wait transferred to Dreamhost PS, which is a dedicated virtual server just for me.
My site has not been under heavy traffic but still my gallery has been feeling slow sometimes. Not anymore, at least it seems to be faster.
Of course as downside I have to pay a little more for this server now, but at this time I really think that it is worth.
One of the nicest thing in Dreamhost PS is ability to change allocated resources in real-time. If I think or see that I need more memory to my server, I just login to panel and assign more and after a while it has been updated to my server. For example I tried to install and run GlassFish application server and it needed a lot more memory than I was originally allocated (and paying for). But with Dreamhost this was no problem, I just increased memory in control panel, waited for change to become active and then installed GlassFish and tested it. After testing I just went back to original memory setting and I only paid for few hours for more resources. This is exactly how things should work. Just pay for what you are using, not about what you might sometimes need to use.

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As you might seen, I have a little site redesign under construction. This means a few changes in this site. The most visible change is now the new address of my blog. I moved this blog to its own sub-folder and its new address is http://www.mikian.com/blog. This change allows me to add different content to main page. Earlier my blog was my website but from now on this blog is just a one part of site. Although site doesn’t have anything else yet, I promise that someday there will be. I try to add something in few weeks but I cannot promise anything.

For newsreader users, this redesign means that you might need to update feed address on your reader. I try to keep old feed address working but I cannot guarantee that.

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