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:
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.
As you can tell by the top of the website, my web hosting has been provided free of charge for the past while by AlwaysWebHosting. They have been extremely generous and I wanted to thank them very much for all of the help, support, web space, etc. that they have provided for me over the past while. If you are looking for a great web host, definitely give these guys a try.