6There’s an interesting discussion on SliceHost forum that I spotted a while ago — “Might I have to say goodbye to Slicehost? (64-bit vs. 32-bit)”. Someone is thinking of leaving SliceHost because all its OS templates are running 64 bit Linux. That means your sizeof(long) and sizeof(void*) are now 8 bytes instead of 4, [...]
NCL Hosting Sydney VMWare VPS Review
When I first saw NCL Hosting’s end of financial year sale back in June (Australia’s financial year starts from July), I just could not resist it. From their VPS hosting plan page, they are offering 100GB of data transfer for $36.75 (ex GST) per month, and 500GB of data transfer for only $66.75 (ex [...]
VPSLink Xen VPS 2 Weeks Review
This review is a follow up from my previous blog entry. Long story short — I have been a customer of VPSLink for 17 months and have been using their OpenVZ VPS to host various projects. Recently they launched their Xen VPS hosting product, and Cameron from VPSLink has provided me a Xen Link-3 [...]
Xen or OpenVZ VPS?
I have been a VPSLink customer for about as long as they have been offering the service — since June 2006 I think — although I rarely blogged about them here. Recently I had an opportunity to test out their recently launched Xen VPS hosting. VPSLink now offers both OpenVZ and Xen based VPS hosting [...]
Which market is VPS for?
Robert Cichon of CrystalTech wrote on theWHIR blog about getting ready to start up a VPS solution for his hosting company. He asked “Are we making the best choice for what the customers will want?”, and tried to explain what VPS is for.
I mean it’s pretty obvious why some would want to buy VPS; for [...]
Media Temple and Its New MySQL Containers
Media Temple, home of the Grid Server which I wrote about here, has just posted an excellent post on their blog, titled Anatomy of MySQL on the Grid Server. It
Acknowledge MySQL issues in the current grid server platform.
Talk about their old load balancing system for MySQL, and why it did not work.
Discuss their new [...]
Dedicated or Virtual Private Servers?
When a web site or hosted application out grown the shared hosting accounts, the natural progression is usually stepping up to a VPS or a dedicated server. I have seen quite a few times on WHT where people ask whether they should go to dedicated or virtual private server — usually those with budget slightly [...]
Amazon Announced Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
1I am an Australian, and Australia is a tiny place. Well, the land is big, but majority of 20+ million people chose to squeeze into a few coastal cities. Web hosting is expensive here, and everyone went “wow” when Aussie HQ introduced their million-dollar real time provisioning dedicated server this month (see all the buzz [...]