Limulus.net is no longer being hosted at Hurricane Electric. HE has been a great ISP, but for quite some time I’ve been wishing I had root access so I could set up virtual hosts and do other super-user things. It wasn’t until recently, with the advent of fast and cheap virtualization software, that this became affordable.
After looking into Virtual Private Server hosts for about a month, I finally settled on Xelhosting. They had some uptime issues at first, but they seem to be completely resolved (current uptime 20 days).
The switch in ISP has also brought about a switch in HTTP servers. Previously using Apache, limulus.net now uses lighttpd. I don’t have anything against Apache, however lighttpd is ideal when you only have 128MB of RAM to work with. I think I’ve managed to port everything over fine, but let me know if you see anything returning errors or displaying oddly.
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How long have you had an account with Xelhosting? I’m considering switching myself because of the excessive downtime on my current host, I need something more reliable.
Also, just curious, which OS did you go with?
I’ve only had the account since late December 2005. Naturally, the day I posted this entry my virtual server was rebooted, so the current uptime record is still 20 days. Been up 10 days since then, however.
I have a friend using unixshell, and my uptime is definitely beating his.
As for the OS, I went with Debian Sarge because I was familiar with it and because it has the smallest default install.