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So after 5 or 6 years of paying a ridiculous rate for one of the first VPS accounts I ever bought, I’ve decided to switch. Pure laziness has cost me a fortune with that account I swear! I’ve started moving all of my personal hosting over to Linode, a UML (update and now Xen) VPS provider in the states.

Why Linode?

• They have great packages, readily available (slicewhat?) and competitively priced.
• Lots of distributions to choose from, all easily managed in their web application.
• They supported the Rails Rumble! Performance during the rumble was great.
• Friendly support on IRC, direct from the owner in some cases.

They’ve already proven themselves at hosting Rails developers and I’m sure a lot of knowledge has been collected for future support, so I have a good feeling about this.

Things might be a bit unstable for the next few days while I move people around, but it’s looking good so far.

Update

Now Linode fully support Xen VPS’. I submitted a support ticket to find out if I would notice a performance improvement if I migrated. They confirmed that I would and started the migration process. All I had to do was shut down the server, hit a button in their (excellent) control panel and wait 5 minutes while the VPS image transferred.