Definitely. We only had one hardware problem with that server in the 15
year period, so that server didn't require too much effort. But, at one
point we had 20+ servers/routers/switches to manage, so plenty of
holidays and weekends were disrupted by trips up to the co-location
facility to solve an issue. Now, the cost of hosting is so cheap that
I'm more than happy to let folks in Canada (where rctankcombat.com is
now hosted) deal with hardware issues.
Things have sure come a long way in the 20 years since I opened my first
web site on the Internet in 1995. Back then, the server was in my
house, at the end of a pitiful DSL line, and I could estimate web
traffic by looking at the LEDs flashing on the modem. Even better, you
simply filled out a web form to register your URL with the various
search engines before Google came along, putting my site at or near the
top of all "R/C Warship" searches from the very beginning. When Google
came along, they eliminated that aspect, but they sucked in all of the
newsgroup posts, which had thousands of references to my server, so it
was near the top of the search results as well. At one point, the R/C
warship web site was seen by 30,000+ unique visitors a month.
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