A picture from a few years back of my brother and I enjoying some Blanton's single barrel bourbon at our parents' house.

A few weeks ago I posted Hosting Delivery appears to be dead. Well, they did finally respond to my support ticket after I had already moved my content to a new web hosting provider. It sounds like they are still in business.

support at hostingdelivery.com wrote:

Thank you for your time and consideration on reporting on this matter. We had a domain name dispute and this resulted in the domain name being "lost".

From this morning the domain name is operational again. Now we are "back in business" and will continue servicing our clients like you. We have big plans from here on including a re-design of our whole infrastructure and moving to more powerful servers.

Stay tuned for more changes.

If you have any questions or comments please do not hesitate to contact us again.

I'm still quite happy with my new web hosting provider, A2 Hosting.

Update: I am cancelling my A2 Hosting account because my sites had many issues on their shared servers. A2 Hosting sets apache MaxClients setting to 35 and my sites continually served visitors HTTP 503 errors (503 Error Resource limit exceeded) instead of my content. On many pages, the user would not see an error page but the pages would have missing images. HostingDelivery.com was way better with regards to 503 errors and I would probably still be a HostingDelivery customer if I hadn't been scared away by their domain name registration issue.

Now I am a happy Linode.com customer. See my brief writeup: thatlinuxbox.com now runs on a Linode.

I apparently never blogged about taking a new position in 2008. I am no longer with the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida. I have been an IT Senior with the Children's Oncology Group at UF for about a year. COG is under the College of Medicine and affiliated with CureSearch / National Childhood Cancer Foundation.

My old web hosting company Hosting Delivery (http://hostingdelivery.com) appears to have disappeared, closed their doors, gone out of business, or just plain quit. HD let their domain name expire and they no longer respond to support tickets. The web server machine was still up and my sites continued to work, but these events told me that it was time to locate a new hosting provider.

I have found a new hosting provider that I am very happy with, A2 Hosting. This provider was recommended to me by some fellow geeks.

I am now getting a lot more for a lot less money. Features include SSH access, Ruby on Rails, git, and unlimited everything. Server performance is great, the machine has 8 CPU cores and 8 GB of RAM. If you are shopping for a new provider, give a2hosting.com a try.

After about a year, I am blogging again. I still have some theme and layout changes to make but all of the old content seems to be here.

It appears that RSS feeds are working now, too.

A sign at Alachua Sink / La Chua Trail:

We passed our final inspection! We are starting to add furniture and decorate the new spaces!

The fun room:





The bathroom:

Here are a few pictures as we near the end of the project.

Our formerly lush new lawn is not looking very healthy. There is still some green in there (not apparent in the photo) but I went ahead and over-seeded with additional grass seed this weekend.



We had our kitchen patio door replaced as part of this project. We still have to paint most of our new doors: