Tag Archives: hosting

Linode and Slicehost

Just as I’m in the process of moving my sites off Slicehost onto Linode completely I spotted a tweet of someone asking about the advantages of of the big green “L” over SliceHost. Well although I did a post reviewing the top developer webhosts a while back I thought I’d jump into answering this very [...]

Top Developer Hosts

I’ve been through a hell of a lot of different hosts in the past few years so I thought I’d give my take on what to go for.  I will state first off that I currently use: Slicehost and Linode. Slicehost They recently announced their takeover by Rackspace and although that worries me they have [...]

Worst VPS Hosts

CheapVPS / A2B2 / VAServe This is a UK company and I’d heard great things about their service at the WHT forums.  Unfortunately it didn’t go well and I’m no longer with them.  Here’s my key gripes: Poorly designed ‘out of the box’ management systems. These were just confusing.  It took 15 minutes for me [...]

Git and Mercurial Hosting

With all the clammering for free SVN hosting at the moment its easy to forget there are other services available.  I wanted to try out Mercurial and Git since they recently became increasingly popular and with Rails switching to Git it just begged to be given a try. Well here’s a few free source hosting [...]

Slicehost

It may be a bit premature posting about a host when I haven’t even moved any of my sites over to them yet but I’m just utterly besotted with everything at Slicehost. Made more for the geek wanting a VPS than a rank beginner they provide some great features, a really friendly & energetic community [...]

A Good Rails/Ruby VPS

I’ve seen a number of posts recently of people wanting to set up or upgrade Rails/Ruby on their shared hosting accounts. My blog is still on the ASO shared hosting but I’m slowlyt moving everything across to my Rimu Hosting VPS. I’ve been using the RimuHosting VPS plan for about a month now. What I [...]