Oliver’s Place

As you might have noticed the old weichhold.com is gone and the web content has moved to this shiny new site. There were several reasons for this decision. To give you a little insight: the former site was hosted on a dedicated linux box running debian located a Hetzner’s Nürnberg facility. At the beginning the server was just handling email and the website using my own asp.net based CMS. But over the years more and more services were hosted on this box ranging from an MMO guild forum to our family picture gallery. Not surprisingly the amount of time spent with administration work increased by an equal amount - don’t get me wrong: I’m still totally convinced that linux/bsd hosting is the right way to go in terms of stability, security and scalability - I just don’t have the time anymore to manage it on my own.

Another aspect for my decision to “outsource” everything was the quality and maturity levels that content management systems like squarespace.com have reached by now - the squarespace CMS is absolutely incredible and beats everything I’ve used so far hands down. So here we are. My web content is served by squarespace, email/calendar/contacts is hosted by google and our pictures reside on flickr.

P.S: If you are looking for dedicated hosting solution give Hetzner a shot. These guys are just great. If you’ve ever experienced the so-called support of some hosting companies, you appreciate that calling hetzner’s support line connects you directly with the technician with physical access to your machine.

Marvin and I had a fun day together that concluded with a boat trip on Frankfurt’s Main River. You can tell by the picture that he quite enjoyed the trip :)