Speaking of Hosting
So yesterday evening/this morning when I was being frustrated by my Rails app seemingly being killed by DreamHost’s watchdog process killer, I stumbled over a company doing VPS hosting called slicehost.
Slicehost’s service is pretty neat in that you can setup a virtualized linux box in minutes. And you get full control over the entire box, they just give you a control panel to access functions like restarting and rebuilding the box. So there are ups and downs… If you don’t want to be a linux admin, they probably aren’t for you. But, if you don’t mind learning some very useful information, you can run your own box for as little as $20/month with no contract!
They add servers as they get customers to fill them, so I have to wait until next week to try it out, but I am excited to dive in and see what kind of performance it has. I am only going to test out the 256MB slice for now. I hear that 256MB is good enough for a couple hardworking Mongrel processes. Plus, I really want to make a server that can do whatever I want with (insert crazy-man laugh here).