Some time ago – it was probably last year – I had a hardware failure on the old stats server in my study, and the site was down for a few weeks. During that time I did a thing I never wanted to do, and ported the old site into the cloud. That became stats3.drfriendless.com.
This has always been a problematic service, because:
- I never wanted to do it
- I hate the technology that it uses
- I can’t remember how the old site works
- The database is badly designed
- The site is slow
- It’s very expensive
And I could go on whining all day. But then add to that:
- The expensive service was underpowered for what I was trying to do
- And it didn’t work anyway and I couldn’t be arsed finding out why
so today I finally pulled the pin and shut it down. stats3.drfriendless.com now points to the same server as stats.drfriendless.com.
So now I am back down to two sites, both of which are cheaper. I won’t miss stats3, it was not a good solution.
