unixshell#
Due to my impending loss of broadband, moved the site from my own machine to a unixshell# virtual server. Kids, I have one thing to say: unixshell# is good. If you want a server with root access, you won’t find better prices. Plus, it’s fast — faster than the 667 MHz machine I was using before — presumably because unixshell# uses Xen, which is one of the faster virtualization techniques out there. The downside is the downtime. It seems that Xen isn’t quite production-stable, and so the unixshell# servers appear to get (judging from forum comments) something like two weeks of uptime; and hardware problems (such as those experienced by me yesterday) can reduce the uptime even further. Still, you get what you pay for — and the prices are ridiculously excellent.