Office moved to Palo Alto – check

Transition to a new data center – check

Closing the doors at SteadyHost.com – check

Booking a vacation week for next month – check

It’s been a a very demanding month, if not more. You see, today was the last day that my colocation and hosting business SteadyHost was up. Today we removed the final servers, and shut down the network.

No this wasn’t due to the economy at all. I am a very happy guy to finally close this chapter, it feels great. We got into this business a bit out of necessity. We streamed so much for Internet radio projects, it made sense to be in somewhat of a wholesale position.

Hey it was even fairly profitable, and we had customers who were with us for years. The problem was that it took a good chunk of my time, and the time of some others working on the team. I can safely say on average this took 1/3 of my time over last few years. It helped pay the bills, and if I were to do it exclusively I am sure it would be an even bigger success.

So yes, it’s being shut down despite having been a success and turning a decent profit.

Why now? When the data center lease expired, the space in NY was rented by Google instead. It was either moving it to a new data center, or shutting down. This isn’t my element, and it’s not too pleasing to work on it. At the same time I am getting quite good bandwidth rates through the contacts I’ve made over the years. So we chose to phase it out – and today was the last day.

You know what they say about one door closing and another opening. Ironically as SteadyHost is now done with, PayToAsk is getting very close to being ready for its first release. I really do hope to tell you more about it in upcoming posts. I’ll drink to that tonight!