Good-bye WordPress, Good-bye Linux

I am migrating away from a Linux/WP OpenVZ VPS to an OpenBSD/KVM VPS for hosting my website and other data. Please excuse the dust and broken links while I figure out Pelican. I will probably write more notes here related to OpenBSD, PF, IPSec, Python, and pet projects …

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Yet another new VPS

I had to move to yet another VPS because the last one became severely unstable. I am now on a Frantech VPS which is proven to be far more stable. Better support and response from the owner as well.

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Back Online!

I found a new VPS provider, SpotVPS.com owned by parent company Comforthost.net. So far i'm happy. Setup was instant after payment and nothing has broke so far!

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Site and Server Going down

My hosting provider has decided to get out of the VPS business and focus purely on datacenter and servers. I have not found on a new provider yet to migrate to. I want to find a provider in CA, preferably the Bay Area. If the price is right then i'll …

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finally back...

After a long outage that started out initially by my hosting provider, we are back online.

We are patched up to the latest Ubuntu 10.x, and now running on the latest Nginx instead of the RAM hog, Apache.

CrashPlan and my crappy VPS are what triggered me to switch …

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slakin.net|mattsn0w.com back online

server OS needs to be upgraded still, but the server is back online. not much bandwidth still but in a colo with inline APC and generators.

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