Welcome to the newly hosted unclehulka.com
January 2, 2009
During my long vacation, one of the tasks I set for myself was to migrate my site off of DreamHost. I’ve been with DreamHost for a while and they’ve mostly provided me with decent service. However, all too frequently I’ve found little things that have bothered me:
- Occasional downtimes while I want to do something. I’m a night person and that’s generally when sysadmins think it’s a good time to take the system down since the users are sleeping. While that’s true in general, it’s not true when your customers are night owls.
- Shell access was often incredibly slow. System loads on the shell servers were often high and so were the latencies, making typing anything on the command line a brutal experience.
- You’re somewhat limited in what you can run. DreamHost picks out the Apache version and whatever modules are installed. They provide a base install of PHP, but (if you’re inclined) you can build your own version and run it using FastCGI. While it’s possible to do this, it’s kind of a pain in the butt.
So I’ve recently switched over to Slicehost. Slicehost does virtual private hosting. You get a virtual machine and are free to run whatever software you want on one of their OS images (they have several Linux flavors to choose from). Anyway, I’ve recently moved all of my unlcehulka.com material over to Slicehost, so…uh…welcome! If you’re interested in trying out Slicehost, feel free to use my email address when signing up to give me the referral (rckenned AT yahoo.com).
I’m hoping to use my newfound hosting freedoms to do some more interesting things with the site. I’m currently working on a simple side project that I hope to launch to the site in the coming weeks. In the meantime, if you see anything broken on the site, feel free to mention it in the comments and I’ll take care of it.
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