A couple hours ago I moved this blog, my main website and the PhillyLambda homepage over to the Slicehost service. I’ve been a Dreamhost customer since 2002 and back then they were great and cheap. They were great for a while after that, and then they were OK but now they are pretty bad. Routinely, when I SSH into Dreamhost, I see load averages in the double digits (one time it was 135+). Every time I post to this blog, I have to hit Publish and then hit back about 5 times to get it to really commit because the FastCGI keeps snapping between Apache and Rails and throwing up a 500 error. I was getting pretty tired of it all.

So, for just a little bit more money I get my own dedicated VPS where I can run whatever I want. I’d heard really good things about Slicehost for a while so I decided that when I got the time, I’d move my sites over there. I also am using DNS services from Nettica as they were very good to me while I was at Commerce360. Here’s hoping that when I press Publish this time it just does it! ;)