Moved to Slicehost!
I’m definatly a cloud computing groupie.
Xen has really opened up the options for hosting. For a looong time the only way to get root on your host was to pay for a dedicated machine which was unreliable and hard to reboot / upgrade.
3rd rail has been running on unixshell which pioneered the xen hosting approach back in 2005. They ran into problems though and have been asking us to move to a wack closed source virtualization platform.
We’ve also been using EC2 which is by far the leader in this arena but its got some drawbacks… Mainly cost of ownership $70 a month for a single instance.
This afternoon we moved to a relatively new VPS provider called slicehost. The guys over there have really done a superb job building a scalable hosting solution.
The admin tools are first rate and they are building a great community. Best of all their service starts at $20 a month.
We’ll still use EC2 but not for small things like our blogs and low traffic sites.
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