Experimenting with a new VPS

I’ve been trying out a few new ISPs for my web hosting needs. I desperately want to get myself a VPS (or Virtual Private Server) because it will allow me to do all kinds of things I can’t do at the moment. The credit card’s the limit.

It’s a really geeky task, but I’ve spent the last couple of days getting myself acquainted with real system administration. Over the next few days I’m going to migrate my sites across and see whether the package I’ve chosen can handle the load.

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  1. Posted February 23, 2010

2 Comments

  1. Owen

    February 24, 2010 10:12

    Is this the same thing as Amazon EC2, and whatever Microsoft’s version is? Or is it more like a webhost that you can administer yourself?

    Costs, etc?

  2. Ash

    February 24, 2010 21:03

    I’m more attracted to xen hosts, which are a cross between a full-blown virtual machine, and a big sandbox. I’ve tried a couple with varying success, and I’m planning on doing a write-up when I get the chance. They’re not cheap though, you can expect to pay $40/month for an entry level system.