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A New (e)Home
December 24th, 2007 @ 16:06:40 | Life, Web
With all that has been going for the past several weeks and some significant developments, it feels like I am in a race car … driven by somebody else! To keep up with these changes, one of the very important things I had to do was to find a new home – eHome of sorts – for my website (and couple others of my friends, that used to be hosted on my server in Michigan Tech).
I shopped around for a while and Host Monster looked to be a very good choice. Plenty of storage space, plenty of bandwidth and more … all for about $6/month. However, once someone gets used to having the root previliges on a Linux server, it’s pretty hard to live without it. Some of the web based utilities I have designed/developed need sudo powers and I just couldn’t do it with Host Monster. And that turned out to be the biggest reason I chose not to go with it.
Around this time, my buddy Kyle informed me about another online resource – Linode. 10 GB storage space, 300 MB RAM, 200 GB bandwidth and seemingly expensive pricing (~$20/month) – would have made it a less preferable choice. But the best parts of it all are the following: first, I get the root access and get to do whatever I want; second, I get to chose what Linux distribution I want. In all, it’s a virtual server that’s up almost all the time with me having all the necessary powers/previliges. That was just sufficient to suck me in.
As such, all the contents of this website (Photo Gallery, Showcase, Blog, Kagga and more…) are currently being served in beautiful high definition from a Linode virtual server. And will be so for a year (or more) at least…
Welcome to Linode – glad your enjoying the service. Don’t hesitate to contact us if you need anything! Oh yeah – we just increased the resources on all the plans, so feel free to reboot your Linode for an additional 20% RAM.
-Tom
@Tom:
Thank you so much!
Awesome news