The Goldfish Chronicles

Lastly, a link to SliceHost; a virtual hoster whom I am already extemely happy with.

BrianM put me onto them, and I was able to migrate from GoDaddy extremely quickly. Given that GoDaddy have told me I have to upgrade my virtual server there to the latest RHEL (a process which involves wiping my virtual server and getting a new one), there was no value at all in staying. In fact, even less. Their upgrade process means I’ll have downtime.

SliceHost seem very good - low price, but done so by setting things up in a smart way and not because they’re throwing other products at the customer. This allows SliceHost to offer a good product and not a crappy half-arsed one. I even signed up for the backup at $5 a month. It’s good (complete copy of the server x 3; all GoDaddy seemed to offer was an FTP target), but is lacking one essential feature of a backup to me - being accessible from the server so I can just pull files off of it. Least I’ve not seen how yet - you never know.

Still, it’s at the right price. I’m prepared to pay that much more to be able to roll back easily if something goes wrong. I can turn the server off upstairs which does backups and JIRA for osjava.org (if I migrate that back online) and save money on the power bill.

Here’s hoping they continue to impress.

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