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On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 11:39:54AM -0600, Christopher M. Hobbs wrote: > So, pardon my ignorance, but are helsinki and quux.org hosted from > home? I've got goiaba.net hosted on a VPS right now, and I've

I have a VPS setup from memset.com -- their "miniserver" package. I have been extremely happy with them. A knowledgable staff, good price (especially if you pay for a year in advance), and good service. The best thing is that the bandwidth is unmetered. You can use however much you can pull; it is rate-limited but it's only clamped down to about the speed of a T1 so it's not a big deal :-)

That said, I'm looking at other arrangements so I can put this 40GB drive to use. I don't think I'd cancel my memset account though. I run about 11Gb/mo through it, and I think that would be expensive elsewhere.

The nice thing about Gopher is that you can rate-limit it down to very low values -- 5K/s or even lower -- and not hurt interactivity at all. I do host a few binaries from quux.org, but I don't think they're the most popular feature at all.

> I need to get more content on goiaba.net, but I simply can't think of > any ideas. The whole idea of setting up the server was to help > preserve the protocol, but its difficult to find content. Perhaps I'll > just host some of my haikus or old technical information there. :)

I took the approach of sticking anything and everything that was 1) interesting and 2) legal on my server. I've got a mirror of the world's largest interactive fiction site and a collection of RFCs.

Think of it as a blog. There is no pattern you must conform to. See something interesting? Post it.

Also, I am probably going to port PyGopherd to Haskell when I have a chance. That should be 1) fun and 2) sweet. Actually, I've already started porting certain PyGopherd features to Haskell, but in a more generic manner (in my MissingH library). The actual server should be fairly small.

-- John