Site change of scenery

If you're reading this, domain name service has done its magic and you are getting SI from its new hosting home.

I'll spare you the migration details. These days, changing hosting is like changing cell phone plans -- you just want the features you need, reliable service and a fair price. Not much sexy about it.

I will tell you that, for clients' sake more than mine, I've tinkered some lately with so-called "cloud hosting." I'll save the details for a later post, but the quick over-under is this: as with all things, it makes economic sense only for a certain sweet spot of use cases. Very small sites will see no benefit, and maybe higher costs. Very large sites may need dedicated hardware performance, especially on databases, so the cloud doesn't fit. But many sites in a midrange of traffic and features might benefit from metered pricing and the potential of rapid scaling when needed. More when I've recovered from moving tarballs and SQL dumps.