Linode saves my ass again

Last Wednesday we had a power outage at home; it managed to take out the aging P4 I used to host this site (and be my firewall; bad sysadmin! no donut!). The only monitor I had in the house had given up the ghost some time ago, so I was left unable to figure out why the damn thing wouldn't boot.

Fortunately I'd been backing up to an external hard drive, so the recovery plan went like this:

1. Drive to London Drugs, buy random cheap wireless router, drive home
2. Connect router to wall
3. Sign up for VM with Linode

They've saved my butt before, and as before I couldn't be happier with them. God's own bandwidth to Debian mirrors, and the machine feels fast as anything. 512 MB RAM and 20 GB disk space for $20/month. I really, really wish they were hosting in Canada; I'd be seriously tempted to stay w/'em for the long run. But as it is, I think I'm going to get working on getting that PogoPlug running my sites.

Shame about the timing of the outage, since I was building some serious momentum in writing here. But I'll keep plugging away.