Well, after a long and difficult journey, Daily Cup of Tech is over to a new host. It was not an easy decision to make while I was choosing my hosting provider but in the end, I decided to go with, drum roll, please…Slicehost! The reason I went with Slicehost for my hosting is because they are not a host.

Now, before you believe that I’ve finally gone off the deep end, please hear me out. Slicehost does not host my website, I do. What Slicehost does is provide me with a virtual private server (VPS) on which I can build whatever I want. I decided to build a web server but I could have just as easily built a mail server or a network monitor.

Getting into a VPS solution is not for the faint of heart. I needed to learn a lot in order to get things up and running. Here is a list of some of the technologies that I needed to familiarize myself with in order to make things work well:

  1. iptables
  2. ssh
  3. nginx
  4. PHP
  5. linux permissions
  6. Wordpress
  7. MySQL

I have a lot of notes and things that I have learned which I will be sharing here about this upgrade in the near future.

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