end of an era: corprew.org -> dreamhost

One change that happened over the weekend was moving corprew.org from the old Static Factory Media hosting machine to a new home at dreamhost. A large part of this was because I needed to install some demo applications I'd written which require more resources than SFM's host machine can spare for any particular client (it remains a good machine for general hosting needs and is operated by BizNik, who acquired SFM's technical assets approximately six months ago and are excellent people whose services I highly recommend.)

SFM was an interesting company, with a lot of promise but in some ways plagued by many of the problems that plague startups with first-time executives. It didn't really consistently keep a single message, but I learned a lot about running a business from it. I wasn't one of the executives, but had experience running businesses, and therefore advized on various areas.

Over the years I was involved with them, I had to jump in and help with administrating the SFM machine a lot. So, moving my stuff off that machine represents an end for me to my involvement with my role there It's strange, and bitttersweet. Because there's a lot of happiness to being done with particular things even when they have a lot of good memories, which being involved with SFM did.