So if you’ve noticed lately… my blog has been up and down the last few days. Well… I’ve finally done it.
I’ve left the cramped servers of DreamHost and moved onto greener ground…
I’ve been contemplating the move for a few weeks as my hosting contract was up and I needed to decide what to do. My requirements for a new host were pretty simple. Be cheap, be fast, give me some good stuff, and let me host Rails applications.
To my suprise, I found a VPS solution that was actually cheap! SliceHost… came recommended from TopFunky. I now have my own slice in the virtual computing sky!
What slice did I buy? 256 Slice.
- 256 MB of RAM
- 10 GB HD Space
- 100 GB Transfer
All for $20 a month… not bad at all!
My current blog setup is as follows: Apache 2.2.4 + modproxy + all of the goodies (gzip compression, etc.) + Mongrel (mongrelcluster)… and if you notice, it’s going a hell-uv-a lot faster!
So now you might ask… what about my other domains and email on Dreamhost… what did you do? Well… I moved my email addresses (jake@whoisjake.com and jake@developstuff.com) over to Google Apps following Scott’s wonderful article. It’s sweet… I basically get 2GB of email using Gmail interface for my domains… and I still control the DNS to my domains to do what I want with the websites! NICE! All for FREE!
Wow… That’s quite a mouthful… but yeah, thanks for the patience and hopefully I’ll get back to writing more!
p.s. If you sign up for hosting from Slicehost… tell them that Jake sent you (enter in jake@developstuff.com as a referreal)
A buddy of mine just signed up with Slicehost as well and is happy with them, after having been referred by another happy customer. Seems like a good place; best of luck.
Thanks Harlan!
I’ve also made a mode from Mint to Google Analytics… I didn’t want to bother with configuring and installing php on my VPS… so I axed it.
Plus it’s free!