Safety Fork, the

After a little more than a year and a half, I’ve given up on running my web presence from a server in my apartment. Last night I moved Safety Fork to a shared host. I’ll accept the loss of geek cred in exchange for better load times (my upload is pretty slow for serving images) and letting someone else handle all the administrative tasks that are required to responsibly run web and email services, et cetera—tasks I can do, but which are pretty low on my mental list of interesting ways to spend my evenings and weekends, now that I’ve done them all at least once.

I have to say, though, that shutting off a box with a couple of fast SCSI drives in it makes a satisfying movie-esque equipment-winding-down noise…and the silence left behind is awfully nice.