centos
Everything Old is New Again
It's time for my quarterly blogging drive, and to start, here's some information on my ever-increasing need to try out cool web technologies.
Server Migration
My previous server was a VPS with 1 GB RAM for an obscenely low price from Serve By Design. I'm not linking to them, because I wouldn't recommend them, as you'll see. For the money, I didn't expect them to stay around forever, and I was right. At the end of September, I got an email saying that they had to immediately cease all hosting and that I had 10 days to move my VPS. Not great, but I can deal with that.
I've been doing some work with Rackspace's cloud products recently for work, so I decided to move to a Cloud Server VPS running CentOS. I'm quite impressed with the Rackspace Cloud thus far, they have a robust backup / cloning system, and the plans are plenty cheap so long as your data transfer isn't too high. Since I'm using SimpleCDN to handle all static content for my Drupal 6 sites, there's really nothing to worry about on the data transfer front.