Anyway i have just order geekstorage’s vps, initial impression not really good, it took around 4 day to get my vps ready and the experience of the vps not really that good, quite often i will have a “pause pause” situation , i wonder is it disk IO issue ?

I do think about using linode or slicehost and be my own server admin , but it seem like those are required more skill which i don’t really have time to polish it for now. argh

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Two day ago my vps was down due to mysql insufficient memory , i believe it happen because mysql is bacup and rsync to my webfaction account, but this remind me of consolidate my host this idea again.

My current idea is move all the site to my webfaction account cancel my knownhost account and getting a linode vps. So that i can use the linode vps to do backup and playing with the setting.There are few reason to make me plan like this.

Save $$ – currently i m paying USD$31.50 for the vps , if i get a linode vps is about $USD20, cutting some cost.But the amont differenence is for the control panel and server admin support, i will talk about control panel on next point, but the support is really good at knownhost, which really making this a tough decision.

Control Panel – i using directadmin on vps , which is a lightweight control panel, but it seem like the feature is quite limited, example for addon domain ( pointing different domain to a same path ) or wild card dns ( whatever subdomain you type, will be all redirect to same domain) need a lot of hard code to be done and the control panel realy redundant.In the other side webfaction custom panel seem like able to solve all these problem in a easy way.

barebone vps – i been thinking to get a bareabone vps from either linode or slicehost, these vps are developer friendly, i can just reinstall any linux distro in the control panel and learn to configure it to suit my need

resource – base on the way i m using, i believe i might reach limit of my current vps soon and i think i might need to spend more $$ on it to get a more resouce package.

consolidate script – currently mainly on my vps is drupal and wordpress, if i using webfaction control panel , i might be able to consolidate everything, so that i have 1 drupal instance and 1 wordpress instance, it will be easier for me to maintain and upgrade.

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• knownhost – my vps provider , hosting most of my site , cost USD $31.50
• mediatemple – ultra resource hosting account, seem lots of down time , using for backup of my vps, cost USD $17
• total USD $48.50 per month

yeah, this is how much i spend on hosting each month, which is about $66 SGD, it’s consider quite a lot if i put in measurement the storage n bandwidth i been using, this is really under utilize , so it’s time to cut down and consolidate again.

Closing down my mediatemple account, the whole Grid service is really sounds awesome, if the downtime not that often, anyway currently i m consider webfaction, it seem good to me, it have rails, django and subversion, the price is low ,getting one for multi purpose include backup should be ok.

I been thinking to get either linode or slicehost as a vps for development, or if is better i can use it to replace my knownhost vps, i m still struggle on this, manage or not manage ? this is always my pain.

Hmmmmmm looking at some sg web hosting too, one of the project i would like to launch is target local, i might need a local hosting for that .. argh, how to balance this !

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