Bye bye spider.my
March 24th, 2011 | by Sean |
No more spider.my
I’m taking spider.my down in anticipation of a move from Malaysia in the next few months. The split-brain nature of the site, with a front-end application on a small local VPS and the search (and a few other bits and bobs) back-end on a stack of servers on my landing makes it sufficiently awkward to move that by far the easiest thing to do with it is to unplug it. I’m unplugging it now because it’s simply one less item on the ‘do before move’ list.
There are no dependent users of spider.my who will be harmed by the switch-off (according to the log). There are plenty of downloads of the Damerau Levenshtein sources, so I’ll move those onto this blog (probably) in the near future (probably). If there’s anything else that anybody misses and it’s easy to put back up somewhere online, let me know.
It has been interesting and I suspect when life settles down again the code may be reincarnated, but not as spider.my – that’s gone.
3 Responses to “Bye bye spider.my”
By cautionsign on Apr 27, 2011 | Reply
Hi Sean, I tried out your spider.my few months ago and i think those services provided by your spider.my is super awesome! Anyway, please let me know if some day your spider.my is up again~ Thanks!
By Sean on Apr 27, 2011 | Reply
Hey Chan, thanks for the kind words. Much of spider.my will be reincarnated on a weeks-to-months time-scale, but as part of another project that needs some major re-working first. I’ll be sure to post a link when it’s back again.
By Sean on Jul 25, 2011 | Reply
Some of the features from spider.my are slowly reappearing at Shipping-Quote.net.