Earlier this month I asked in my 12 months GPLHost review,
I am again considering whether to leave GPLHost or stay. …. My growing site needs more data transfer allowance. I am close to using up 30GB that came with the plan, and it appears the only way to get more data transfer is by upgrading [...]
Bye Bye GPLHost
GPLHost Sydney VPS 12 Months Review
2It has been a year since I wrote my 3 weeks review on GPLHost, and I am still with them despite some uptime issues back in June. My site hosted on GPLHost’s VPS has grown in popularity over the last year and the performance has been fine over the last 3-4 months. Now the VPS [...]
GPLHost 13+ Hours Outage in 2 Days
There are some very good Xen hosts. SliceHost being one that I have had experience with — it has rock solid stability, very good uptime, great performance and all the flexibility of Xen at an incredibly price. Too bad they are not in Australia. I don’t know how bad a Xen VPS host can be, [...]
How OpenDNS Saved My Day
Just read the latest post on OpenDNS blog, How OpenDNS saved Caio’s job — Caio from Brazil used OpenDNS when his ISP’s DNS server was down, and was able to complete his job.
Similar event happened to me today. No, it did not save my job — it was not work related. Let’s just say that [...]
GPLHost Sydney VPS 3 Weeks Review
This post is a continuation from my previous post, searching for an affordable VPS on the East coast Australia. At the end I was choosing between two offerings — GPLHost’s Xen package 4 in Sydney, or DarkStarX’s VDS package in Perth. Although DarkStarX is cheaper, but (1) it’s on OpenVZ with only 128Mb guaranteed [...]
GPLHost now provides Xen VPS hosting in Sydney, Australia
Got a comment from Damien of GPLHost on my XenFu blog that they have started to provide Xen based VPS hosting in Sydney Australia. The data centre utilises MCI network, which has a nice 15-20ms return trip time from both my home ADSL connection and work.