Oct 18
Peter_RSite hosting migration, prmgr.com, Rackspace, SSL, VPS
I’ve now switched hosting companies for this site from Rackspace Cloud to another VPS provider, prgmr.com. During my time with Rackspace I haven’t really experienced any major issues though my server did once have some downtime for a few hours. Rather, I’ve moved because prgmr.com offer an even less managed service and I don’t need all the extra features that Rackspace can provide.
On a somewhat related note, the site now uses SSL for logging in and registration which makes it inherently more secure to use.
Sep 20
Peter_RSite hosting migration, Rackspace, Servage, VPS
I’ve decided to move the site over to a different web host since I’ve not really ever had satisfactory service from my current host, Servage.
Servage offer shared-managed hosting which they appear to oversell to a massive degree. The terrible MySQL performance I pretty consistently got from them was the biggest deal breaker I experienced.
With these issues in mind I’ve moved over to using a Cloud Server from Rackspace Cloud instead. This is an unmanaged VPS solution meaning that the software side of the server is entirely administrated and controlled by me.
The blog is now migrated across after I’ve spent the past couple of weeks setting up the server the way I want. Everything should work fine but there may be some minor issues that need to be sorted out such as resource constraints, for example.
RSS