Category: hosting
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Interesting hosting provider: Digital Ocean
I just set up a bare-bones website for Pyston, which as of the time of this writing is just hosting the pyston-dev mailing list. When setting it up, I wanted a new cloud VM to serve it; my current one, which is serving the blog you’re currently reading, certainly has the capacity to run the…
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Improved blog speed by serving smaller images
Unbeknownst to me, I’ve been serving everyone full-sized images from my blog. I didn’t really notice this because I visit my blog often enough that my browser caches them and they seem to load instantly, but once I moved to a new computer I noticed how slow everything was. The issue was that my server…
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Two new hosting providers: DigitalOcean, and BitVPS
For some reason my shared hosting provider comparison post keeps on getting more traffic than the rest of my blog combined, which makes me feel compelled to post more about that space, even though I’m not particularly knowledgeable or necessarily interested in it. But anyway, I’ve recently run into two more providers that seem pretty promising,…
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Upgraded blog host to Ubuntu 12.04
Linode actually made this remarkably easy to do, I just had to: Shut down the old vm Resize its disk to be less than half of my Linode disk quota Create a new 12.04 disk image, again with less than half my Linode disk quota Launch the vm but now from the 12.04 image, and…
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Reviving the blog
My one and only popular post was about choosing a hosting provider. At the time I recommended linode; I bought a Linode VPS and a prgmr.com one. Fast forward three years, and my exciting ideas for all the ways I could use a personal VPS have fizzled, and I’m now paying $20/month for a wordpress…
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