Some things are better left said

So this is how it all got started. I have been hosting a couple of sites with a shared hosting company called Servage. I really can’t complain about them as they have been great for for the couple of years I have been with them. Unfortunately though, I have kind of outgrown them.

I use a dedicated host at my day job and really started to rely on things like SSH access and SVN so when working on personal projects it became quite a bummer not having access to these things. Also, a couple of the sites I was developing were becoming increasingly slow to load up (for no apparent reason).

So I decided to check my options…

Now when I last looked at this sort of thing, prices were still rather steep. I remember virtual private servers were going for around £80 a month let alone dedicated ones. Anyway, I was actually quite surprised to see that things have changed.

A number of companies are now selling VPS solutions for around £20 to £50 a month. My requirements did not extend to having masses of disk space and processing power, so I had to look a little harder to find what I was looking for. I basically had two requirements - I had to have complete control of the server environment and I needed unlimited (well… unlimited as unlimited can get) bandwidth.

This led me to two companies - Web Fusion and Easyspace.

The Web Fusion and Easyspace VPS solutions both had what I was looking for, just the specifications and price differed. The Easyspace one was a little bit cheaper and had a few more GB’s of disk space so that’s the one I went for. So far, everything has been surprisingly easy.

It took 48 hours to get everything set up from the time I paid them and after a few support tickets were logged I had access to my VPS. They even upgraded PHP from v4 to v5 for me. I really can’t complain too much about the process, only that the support guys tend to take anywhere between 12 to 24 hours to answer a ticket. Not great but at least they have a live chat facility which gives you around a 4 minute response time. No prizes for guessing how I am going to get support in the future!

Anway, all my sites have been migrated now and I am just waiting for a few more DNS records to propogate then I should be up and running.

Adios Servage! It’s been real…