{"id":1361,"date":"2011-07-28T22:30:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T02:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2011-07-28T22:30:41","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T02:30:41","slug":"moved-vpses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/28\/moved-vpses\/","title":{"rendered":"Moved VPS’es"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last month I’ve moved from my previous Virtual Private Server (VPS) with A2WebHosting to Linode.<\/p>\n

A2WebHosting was a good host back when I only needed a shared host, before I wanted the apache web server highly configure with a lot of extra settings and things like PHP’s APC. My transition to A2WebHosting’s VPS service I was not that great. I’ve run basement servers that were more reliable.<\/p>\n

A lot of the frills of having your own virtual server weren’t there with A2WebHosting, but what was worse was for the first year I wasn’t able to load any kernel modules…. like ipfilters – the firewall! — I wasn’t too public about that problem. Also the drive was often so slow (I\/O wait) the site slowed to being almost unresponsive.<\/p>\n

I’ve now transitioned to Linode. A VPS host only. I first discovered them when tracking down where comment (wiki) spam bot traffic was coming from — the hackers know where to find value.<\/p>\n

Their recent increase in storage ensured that their low-end offering was much better than what A2 offered. I’ve since really appreciate their custom web-dashboard and iPhone app for managing servers.<\/p>\n

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I’ve also transitioned from a CentOS host and the Red Hat \/ RPM world to Ubuntu. The recent politics around the CentOS releases sealed the deal in me moving from the free version of the “enterprise” standard to Ubuntu’s well respected and also free Linux version.<\/p>\n

So now that I’ve got this new, more reliable virtual server with more resources I think I need to start coming up with some more web projects soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the last month I’ve moved from my previous Virtual Private Server (VPS) with A2WebHosting to Linode. A2WebHosting was a good host back when I only needed a shared host, before I wanted the apache web server highly configure with a lot of extra settings and things like PHP’s APC. My transition to A2WebHosting’s VPS… Continue Reading Moved VPS’es<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,37,3,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattclare.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}