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Looking at Dedicated Hosting Plans

Paul Prins — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:31:41 +0000

So things over at nineteen05 are starting to really get moving. We’re almost to version 0.8 of our software as we’ll be rolling out the bulk of our member management utility in the coming week or two. Over the last week we’ve had two appointments that each have gone really well. Now it’s to followup and just getting everything to play well together.

This leads me to this post. We are needing to move over to a dedicated hosting solution. I have looked at both VPS and Dedicated. We’ve made the decision to go with dedicated for the benefits of having our who unit (which we may run like a vps for our clients) to ensure up-time and that it is only our scripts competing for resources. While this is a more expensive approach, over time we believe that it will be more beneficial for us. I’d really appreciate any feedback from those of you out there who know more about the network administration side of things than I do.

I came accross a website compairing different hosting services (webhostingstuff.com) and have narrowed down our needs as such (link).

Disk Space: 160 gigs+
Bandwidth: 2 TB+
RAM: 1 gig +
Cost: Under $200
Up Time: 99.9% (with 99.99 preferable)

Other things that would be nice:

Gigabit ethernet
Rack-mounted
Dedicated backup space (though I could partition for this)
Semi Managed (as I’m a developer, not a network engineer)
Custom DNS (which should be the case with all dedicated hosting if I know correctly)

I’ve tenatively narrowed it down to three options:

Steadfast Networks (web):
- Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.2 Ghz
- Diskspace: 250 Gigs
- Ram: 1 Gig
- Bandwidth: 2 Tb
- (8 gigs/gig of disk space)
- Cost: $150

NetRackServers (web): Dedicated Delux (dedicated list)
- Processor: Duel-Core 1.8 Ghz
- Diskspace: 250 Gigs
- Ram: 1 Gig
- Bandwidth: unmetered (not sure what this means)
- Cost: $149

SingleHop (web):S-PD945 (dedicated list)
- Duel-Core 3.4 Ghz
- Diskspace: 250 Gigs
- Ram: 1 Gig
- Bandwidth: 5 Tb
- (20 gigs/gig of disk space)
- Cost: $149

I had at one point considered RackSpace but never felt comfortable with there service or my communications with them. So they are no-longer an option.One final question: What has peoples experience been with Virtuozzo?

OK so that was a lot, but any and all thoughts and feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Nineteen05 Website Up!!

Paul Prins — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:58:23 +0000

Our website for nineteen05 is up! This is really exciting for us. Let us know your thoughts, Again the design is by Ned Wright.

In the near future I’ll be putting blogging software on the site, and starting a blogs for the sites I host. I’m thinking about using WordpressMU, anyone have any experience with this? I know some people use it for a full fledged CMS. Let me know your thoughts/experiences.

Maximus!

Paul Prins — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:12:04 +0000

Maximus!, uploaded on 23rd April, 2008.

It’s our new kitten! Maximus Decimus Meridius Prins!

You can also see one of my Nineteen05 notebooks in the background sporting the sweet new logo by ned wright.

Another Month goes by

Paul Prins — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:04:55 +0000

Well I feel really bad that yet another month has gone by and I’ve not written here. Life has been a bit hectic. I’m now a month away from completing my first quarter of grad-school at Bethel. Also am on the verge of launching our companies website (www.nineteen05.com). I’ve been writing a lot of code over the last four weeks getting ready to be able to sell our software and we’re so close now.

Other than that, life is going well. We finally had some warm weather (although it could snow yet again tonight…) and spring is in the air. God is getting ready to do some sweet things in Minneapolis and I can hardly wait.

Until then I’m kind of interested as to who still reads this blog when I post something.

First day of Seminary

Paul Prins — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:03:26 +0000

Well day one is down, only another three years to go… haha.

For those of you who don’t know, I started my first day at Bethel Seminary today and it went well. I am still unsure what and were to set my expectations and how I want to go about integrating school, work, and ministry but the process is at least starting. It’s looking like a lot of reading so far.

Today there was a four hour course, and when I got home I had some lunch, then did my course reading for next week, all 190 pages of it. Fortunately it’s a subject that interests me so it wasn’t that bad. On the same note, since it interests me I don’t like speed reading it so the 190 pages took me several hours to get through. Eh, I’m paying for it so I should get something out of it.

On a side note, I have also started up a web company called nineteen05 whose website will hopefully be launching the end of this week. We focus on creating intuitive web-based applications for ministries/non-profits to help them streamline resources and to manage their web-presence. If you’re interested check out www.SubstanceChurch.com for the first site launched using the full software.

I’ll keep more information coming as the company develops and we have product launches and such. Otherwise life is ticking along and God is good.

~paul

Video: Setting up our Christmas Tree!

Paul Prins — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 21:04:22 +0000

We got our tree, and set it up in our new apartment. There are still a few boxes around and thinks strewn about every which way. The important thing is that our tree is set up! So here is our 30 minutes of decoration in only two minutes.

video: Everything skit from Fall Retreat

Paul Prins — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:44:54 +0000

A group of stout students put together this drama to depict what Jesus Christ did on the cross in a more tangible way. While I’m not a huge fan of these dramas this one I felt was very direct and powerful. Hopefully some of that comes through in the video.

Bethel Seminary, I’m In!

Paul Prins — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:25:55 +0000

Just got two phone calls from Bethel Seminary and I’ve been accepted!!

Now it is just a matter of figuring out the job situation for Jordan and I to learn if I’ll be starting January 7th, or not until March. As of now my guess is that I won’t be starting until march to give me some time to work, and decompress from the last 4.5 years of school before diving into another 3 for my masters.

This is really a great feeling. I’m continually getting more and more excited to start my courses at seminary and it’s so awesome to see God putting pieces in place for Jordan and I with the vision He has given us for church planting in France. Will post more as I learn about it.

Graduation is almost here

Paul Prins — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:56:28 +0000

Today Jordan and I picked up our cap and gowns from the book store (cost us $50+! but they seem nicer than the plastic high school ones) and got our graduation tickets from the service desk.

My list of tasks� to complete before the end of the term is shrinking as well, slowly but surely. From an original 20 items as of last Sunday down to 15 right now. This leaves me with

Four Papers
Two Quizzes
Two Exams (only one finals week!)
Some flash grammar tutorials
Some web code
one set of online discussion participation

Thats it!

My application is also now complete over at Bethel Seminary. I should be hearing back this week from the sounds of it so I’ll be sure to post up here when I hear back!!

God Bless,
~paul

I can hardly wait

Paul Prins — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:36:53 +0000

So soon yet so far off. I long to be back in france to love, to preach and to lead a nation to know Christ. It sounds like foolishness, but then again everything in my life should be different. By all rights I shouldn’t be where I am, I shouldn’t be married, I shouldn’t be this blessed. I should be falling further down into the pit into which I was running full speed. The pit and snare that this world lusts after, the pit of wealth and notoriety.

Everything I was screamed success, I laughed and turned the other way. Now I live a life that is destined for failure except for one thing. Christ has already won my ever battle. My life works only because God works in it. The rest of my life the statistics and common sense will say I am a fool, but Christ will call me faithful. It’s been proclaimed before the heavens from the lips of prophets and for whatever reason it brings God pleasure to give me this faithfulness.

Now I sit here in waiting, as a horse before a race to anxious to be ready. Seeing the furlongs laid out before me, trapped behind the gate to ready not to move. How I wish I could be ready to go now, but there are things that must happen, people that must be raised up with us. Two can’t take a city, but maybe 130 can. I find such encouragement as I read through the Old Testament and see how God has used numbers far less than makes sense to capture and claim victory. He has done this so that man can’t stand there and say that we have done anything, and that He might get all the glory.

Woe to anyone who stops those to whom Christ has called to reclaim his lost. For this is the meaning of our existence. To seek and save the Lost, proclaiming Christ to the far corners of the world that ALL might get to know him. This is our lot, this is our time, and Christ is our Lord. The path is before us and we cannot falter now. Oh to get to live in a time such as this, to run the race now, to be found so deeply in His grace that nothing else matters. Even death can’t keep us, for we have tasted victory and know that is is ours in our hearts.

All our Electronics are breaking!!

Paul Prins — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 03:41:10 +0000

So maybe the title is a bit of an exaggeration but it seems as though over the last month a bunch of random little things have been mis-happing. Our DVD home theater system over heated one and now the Component video out doesn’t work, and we have to run a fan into the unit to keep it from over heating and stalling out while playing a DVD (thankfully the RCA video out still works).

Then today our printer just stopped working out of the blue. Tuesday night I printed over 30 sheets for an outreach on Wednesday and then today I go to print out two pictures for a friend and it breaks after the first one… I’m going to need to tear it open and hopefully find someway to fix it.

Yes the DVD player is over four years old, and it has held up in remarkable shape except for the recent failings, but it’s just frustrating because for Jordan and I we unwind to movies sometimes, and now we really can’t. To top it off we are on one of the most fixed budgets of our lives and aren’t sure when we’ll be able to replace these things.

Not really sure that posting this will do any good, but at least I’m blogging (wow it’s been over a month) and thats an improvement. Hopefully this weekend I’ll take some time to blog about this crazy week!

State Fair Food 2007!!

Paul Prins — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:34:53 +0000

This year Jordan and I went to the Minnesota State Fair with some good friends (Kyah and Rob respectively) and had a blast. We also discovered that when you pair up with friend the amount of food you can consume and purchase as a group increases!! Below is the pictorial diary of our good eats (albeit a month after the fact).

So what all did we eat? In order from the top left; Pronto Pup, Deep Fried Snickers Bar, Gelato Ice Cream, Tom Thumb Mini Donuts, cinnamon and Sugar Lefsa, Pickle on a Stick, Spaghetti and Meatball on a Stick, Free Water!, Roasted Nuts, Salmon on a stick, Wild Game Bratwurst, Lemon aid, Shaved Hawaiian Ice, Cheese Curds, Cotton Candy, Roasted Corn on the Cob, 1919 Draft Root beer, Bucket of Sweet Martha’s Cookies, and All the Milk you can Drink for a dollar!!

Jealousy should have already set in.

It was a great day, we escaped just before the clouds opened up and it started to pour down the rain (we went on 8/28 for $8 at the gate!). To see more photos hit the link!

It was a great day, and the first time our friend Kyah had ever experienced the great Minnesota get together. She was excited but skeptical of all the goodness you can place upon a stick.
(Kyah on the far left below next to Jordan, rob in the image on the right)

Jordan decided that she doesn’t like lefsa, how I’m not sure.
She is not from Minnesota so i guess it could happen.

Nun’s at the state Fair!! I talked to one of the sisters for a minute.
She was very excited about the cheese curds!

Kyah and Jordan with the Gedney Pickle | Me on top of a new John Deere

The Gold’n Plump Chicken Van during the parade.

And the best part of the day….

To see the full set of photos from the day check out the Flickr Set.

Summer is almost gone…

Paul Prins — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:05:36 +0000

It’s weird to think that summer is almost done. I only have another eight days at Wireless Ronin before heading back to school. This is a weird feeling, realizing how close we are to being done with our studies (only this coming semester for both of us) and whatever else comes next.

We still don’t know what that is, but it’s been fun seeing how God has given us people to talk to and who have encouraged us to keep going in pursuing our options. The table is still full of options for us and as we learn more we’ll share that.

Right now our focus is on the next two transitions for us, the one back into this semester, and then the one into January. You’re prayers for our discernment are greatly appreciated!

Can’t wait to be back at school, and to see everyone again! Until then, embrace life.

Our Broken Fridge…

Paul Prins — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 05:11:15 +0000

We Arrived tonight in Menomonie for a weekend and it turns out that our fridge is broken (but the light still turns on…). As of now we don’t know to what extent it is, but we walked up the stairs to our place and were just taken back by the putrid smell from the kitchen. At the time neither of us knew what was going on, it smelt like we had only forgotten to take out the trash (x 1000).

So yea, the fridge is empty and cleaned from top to bottom, but it still smells horrible. There is baking soda just sitting on plates in both the fridge and freezer, and an email has been sent to our landlord. It has been quite the first year in this apartment as we have had three bats, and the need to get the whole place rewired so that the outlets work properly. We are blessed that our landlord is so willing to help out and put priority onto our problems.

This isn’t exactly the reason we came to Menomonie this weekend, but I’m glad we did. I can’t imagine how it would have smelt given another week or two. It was terrible the way it was this time. It has had to be a few days, as everything was melted or thawed out. No ice cubes, every frozen piece of meat, veggie, or sliced potato was a goner. We guess it was probably close to $200 of food. grrrrrrrr.

Another time

We’re Alright!!

Paul Prins — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 05:03:36 +0000

Many of you should have heard about the collapse of I35W here in the Minneapolis area. While it is a bridge we used to frequent weekly, both Jordan and myself are fine, and so far no-one we know has been involved in the ordeal of August 1.
I realized yesterday that it had been quite a while since I had set time aside to write here at paulprins.net. The summer has really started to fly by since I started working at Wireless Ronin as an intern. It’s exciting work, and has been really good. I’m the web guy there now it seems. Only three weeks and change left there, that’s really weird to think about.

Check out over at paulandjordan.com as we have put up our first video ministry podcast. It won’t stream to itunes (mainly because they aren’t our target) but we hope to update there every first of the month.