{"id":885,"date":"2012-02-28T12:25:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T20:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/?p=885"},"modified":"2012-02-28T12:25:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T20:25:58","slug":"end-of-an-era-thank-you-netgate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/end-of-an-era-thank-you-netgate\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an Era &#8212; Thank You NetGate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After about 14 years, I just took home the last colocated physical server that we owned. All our sites have moved to cloud servers, mostly at <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/\">Amazon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/rackspacecloud.com\/\">Rackspace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully I will never have to buy a physical server again. No more exploding fans (yes), funny motherboard timing errors, and faulty RAID arrays. No more memory upgrades. No more dead power supplies. No more &#8220;I have to put a CD drive into this box first before I can boot it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>When my wife and I came to California in 1995, we were looking for an ISP, and found <a href=\"http:\/\/netgate.net\/\">NetGate<\/a> in next-door Santa Clara. First, we were dial-up users there (oh, the times as they have changed: their original ftp server ran on Apple Unix if memory serves right). From about 1998, I&#8217;ve also had a colocated server there. Always appreciated the personalized support which we couldn&#8217;t have gotten anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, the world moves on. My sites have moved into the cloud, and NetGate also has interested plans for moving into the cloud. Thanks for all the fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After about 14 years, I just took home the last colocated physical server that we owned. All our sites have moved to cloud servers, mostly at Amazon and Rackspace. Hopefully I will never have to buy a physical server again. No more exploding fans (yes), funny motherboard timing errors, and faulty RAID arrays. No more&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big_picture","category-personal","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}