The site has been down for a couple of months while I dealt with a harddrive failure...

I usually run my personal sites and projects off a Linux VM running on VirtualBox on desktop sitting in the corner of my office. For the second time in as many years that machine has had a harddrive crash that left me scrambling to recover the VM image off a dying drive.

No more.

I've finally woken up to the reality that it's 2016 and realized I could have a vm in the cloud for less than the cost of a overpriced cup of coffee per month. With the added benefit of a team of 24/7 technicians have to worry about keeping it running instead of me.