This is a go live? I’ve just ripped Thought Deposit from the IT department nursery and flung her into the chaotic swirling internets. I wanted the freedom of a VPS, by far the most common VPS system for webhosting is Virtuozzo. Unfortunately Virtuozzo hosts have a rep for overselling processor time.
Our new VPS on Slicehost uses Xen virtualization. Overselling is not much of a problem with Xen based VPSes, largely thanks to Xen’s design. Slicehost also has a very cool AJAX console, for those times when you get firewall rule happy and lock yourself out — I’m told.
Default “slice” OSs are Ubuntu, CentOS, and Gentoo. But by following Marko’s Howto you can hijack your Ubuntu setup and install Debian over it, my preferred distro.
October 9th, 2006 at 5:48 am
VPSLink Hearts Debian Too!
I have also been using VPSLink as my personal vps provider for the last six or so months. They use OpenVZ virtualization, which is the “OSS version” of Virtuozzo. The forums are quite active, and they have a very generous allocation of bandwidth. I don’t have too many complaints so far, especially about processor time. Plus, they support Debian out-of-box.
But, Slicehost looks well polished as well, and I do like Xen.