Well guys, the deed is done. We’re fully moved over from Dreamhost to Linode. Linode is a wonderful VPS provider, with full featured, reliable Xen hosting. If you do not know much about VPS hosting, understand this — Xen is wonderful from a user’s point of view. You get full control of your system setup, kernel, partitions, everything. You can pretty much configure it however you want it. A lot of VPS providers use OpenVZ — which is not a bad thing. Resources are shared, not dedicated. RAM is burstable. They all run from one kernel. While it is pretty flexible in configuration, there are some limitations (which I would rather not have). However, for most people, OpenVZ is perfect. And, along with the way it works, comes cheaper prices. If you’re looking for a good, reliable, cheap VPS, take a look at TDRevolution. They’re great. Their support is great. They support open source. They’re just…awesome (not that Linode isn’t, but it’s a matter of preference).
If you go with Linode, please use my referral code: 9d59c552a8d0e488d6cfd47ce5c17bf9bed883e2 (or this link) — It’ll give me $20 credit on my account after 90 days of you being a customer, and that’s awesome, because every penny counts.
If you decide to go TDRevolution, use promo code “cyanogen” — last I checked, it gives you your first month free. Check it out.
Find which one meets your needs, they’re both wonderful.
However, to the point:
It took a while, not because of anything serious, but, I’ve been working on a set of bash scripts to make managing a Debian Squeeze server much easier. And, we have a secure, multi-user environment. The scripts are not finished, but, they were in good enough shape to get the site live. If you’d like to see them, and/or track my progress on them, you can check them out at my github. I’m currently doing my work on the development branch, and it is a mess. However, once I get things straightened out, cleaned up, etc, I will be moving them to the master branch (ie: release 1.0), and continuing work in the development branch, and moving them over to the master branch as we hit milestones (ie: release 1.1, etc).
As this is a big project of mine, I will be publishing official releases here, with a featured *.tar.gz download.
I would like to give a big shout-out to Matt over at tuxlite — thanks for providing the base scripts, from which I based my set of scripts off of!
And, on that note, now that we have a full, real VPS, expect bigger and better things. They will be announced as they come, so keep your eyes open!
