So, I got sick of DreamHost being crappy, so I moved over to a VPS (Virtual Private Server). What happens now? This means that I have a whole virtual machine to do my hosting. I’m guaranteed certain things (CPU and 256mb ram) and my vendor says they’ll never oversell. Sounds pretty great to me. The company that’s doing the hosting is http://slicehost.com, and they seem to be a pretty good bunch of people – but most of all, it seems to me that the best part of this whole thing is that they give you the server and say “Good Luck!” and that’s about it. I’ve had to do a whole bunch of emerging (I am running Gentoo on my VPS) and now I’ve just got the httpd/php/mysql setup.
What’s left? SVN and Mail are pretty important too so I’ll hopefully fix those up in the next few hours (or days).The message is clear: I’m damn happy to have this service. Can’t wait to get things running exactly the way I want.