Just before the New Years holiday I moved this site to a new web host, Linode. I’ve been with Slicehost for just over two years and don’t have any complaints and think they’re great. There’s an interesting thread on the Slicehost forum about how other vendors have matched and exceeded Slicehost’s offerings. In the thread even Slicehost has admitted they stagnated and haven’t taken advantage of the resources available to them through Rackspace which purchased them about a year ago. That’s part of my reason for shopping around, the same [...] Read the rest »
Why I Love Slicehost
There will probably be a short site outage at 3:30PM UTC time on March 1st. While the outage is due to problems with the server I’m hosted on it’s a good example of why I love Slicehost as a hosting provider. Earlier today I my site went dead as I was doing an update. It wasn’t the type of update that would have caused an outage. I checked the Sitehost diagnostics page which told me my slice was not running although the host hardware was up. It suggested I do [...] Read the rest »
Hey! I’m a Rackspace Customer
Rackspace, a managed hosting provider, has acquired to companies that I use. I recently moved this site to Slicehost and now Slicehost is a subsidiary of Rackspace. Then I saw that Jungle Disk is also now a subsidiary of Rackspace. Jungle Disk is an online storage and backup solution that’s cross-platform. Although I bought their software long ago I hadn’t been using it until I recently started testing version 2 of their software. While press releases and and company comments about this type of thing are always positive there doesn’t [...] Read the rest »
The OS Quest Trail Log #35: Vacation Edition
This Trail Log comes as I’m wrapping up a perfect two week vacation. Now I know “staycations” are all the rage due to the economy and gas prices, but to me there’s no better vacation than staying home and deciding what to do when I wake up in the morning (or afternoon, or evening). The weather was great which allowed me to spend a lot of time on the patio with my laptop and a beer. Naturally a significant part of my time was spent on the quest so I’ll [...] Read the rest »
