VPS on System Overlord

VPS Upgrade

david@systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik) — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:14:25 +0000

As I’ve mentioned before, my blog is hosted on a VPS at Linode. Just under 3 years ago, I moved to my current VPS in their Newark DC to take advantage of their native IPv6 support. I’ve now moved within Linode again, this time to take advantage of their awesome free upgrades.

$20/month gets you a 2GB Xen VM backed by enterprise-grade SSDs, Ivy Bridge Xeons, and a 40Gbps backbone. Think that 40Gbps is going to waste? Think again. I downloaded a 100MB test file from Cachefly in 1.2 seconds. That’s 85.5 MB/s. Consider my mind blown.

VPS.net Review

david@systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:55:37 +0000

I first heard about VPS.net last March at Drupalcon Chicago. Having been a Linode customer for a couple of years, I was skeptical at first, but 7 months later, I'm very happy with the level of service vps.net provides. When I've been working on projects for demanding clients, I've been able to scale my VPS up by adding additional nodes -- either daily or monthly. After the project was done, I could have scaled back down -- but there's always another project on the horizon! (One of these days, I'll have to make "sleep" a project to make sure it gets done too.) While there has been a couple of small downtimes, VPS.net has always been great about providing status updates and letting customers know where they stand. Additionally, their service people are great and respond quickly via email or twitter.

Linode Rocks!

david@systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik) — Wed, 18 May 2011 03:13:28 +0000

As you may know, my site is hosted by Linode, one of the older Linux VPS providers. I was excited when Linode announced native IPv6 support in some of their data centers, but then disappointed when I saw "No ETA" for the Atlanta datacenter where my site was hosted. I had been running my node with Hurricane Electric's IPv6 tunnel service, but I prefer a native solution when I can get it.