Comments on: A Mike Life needs a new host

By: R.A. Porter

R.A. Porter — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:53:45 +0000

We use Joyent here at work and have been pretty happy. Their prices are decent, though it's a Solaris platform, so you might have a little ramp up time. Pretty decent dashboard (though I do most things at the command line) and it should be able to fully support your platform. They're virtual servers, but run really fast and stably. R.A. Porter's last blog post..Bobby Fischer dead at 64

By: ManoDogs

ManoDogs — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:53:55 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:17:43 +0000

Maybe Uncle Adrian will do it for him

Hmm, I’ll call you about this, I’m interested…

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:50:34 +0000

Well, you probably want to move away from the standard shared hosting accounts since they basically try to cram as many sites as they can on a machine. A WHOIS check on this says that there are over 1000 sites on this IP address. The shared plans are cheap, but you get what you pay for.

You can get your own virtual server plan for about $35-40 bucks a month and you basically have your own machine. If you don’t want to pay that much a month you can hop on to Uncle Adrian’s machine for what you may pay currently.

As far as hoping for a service that would move the site for you, I doubt you will find a place that will do that without making you pay for it. I could be wrong though.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:50:39 +0000

So funny that it just died for like 4 minutes after I posted this blog.

And yet it’s back now and actually pretty fast.